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Peckfield Colliery Disaster
The Peckfield pit disaster was a mining accident at the Peckfield Colliery in Micklefield, West Yorkshire, England, which occurred on Thursday 30 April 1896, killing 63 men and boys out of 105 who were in the pit, plus 19 out of 23 pit ponies.
== Accidents ==
In October 1874, at the ceremony for turning the first sod of earth to start the sinking of two shafts for the Micklefield pit, Mr. Joseph Cliff, senior partner of the Micklefield Coal and Lime Company, expressed his earnest wish that the works begun that day might prosecuted and completed without the slightest accident to life or limb, and that a spirit of respect and union might at all times prevail between employers and employed.〔Yorkshire Post & Leeds Intelligencer, ''New Coal Pit at Micklefield'', Saturday 17 October 1874〕
However, the first fatality at Peckfield Colliery occurred when William Martin, a colliery carpenter, aged 38, was killed on Tuesday 27 November 1877, a year after the pit opened. He was part of a team of nine men supervised by the engineer Samuel Clough who were installing a new boiler. The boiler was lowered into the pit by a rope, operated by steam, and Martin was one of three men at the pit top ensuring that the rope ran smoothly. At 2:20 pm, the shackle of rope caught the end of a batten. Martin climbed a fence and called to the engineman to stop the rope, and tried to raise it, to free it, when the fence gave way. Martin caught hold of the balk and swung for a couple of seconds before falling 175 yards down the 14 foot wide shaft. Clough found his body in water at the pit bottom.〔Major Thomas Taylor, Coroner’s Report, Thursday 29 November 1877〕
James Haslegrave, aged 24, was the second fatality, when he was killed by a small fall of coal down the shaft, from a corf he’d just sent up to the surface. He was standing in for the Hanger-on, Mr James Shillito, who had been ill. The accident was witnessed by the underground manager Mr. William Radford.〔Major Thomas Taylor, Coroner’s Report, Wednesday 20 November 1878〕 Both Shillito and Radford would be killed in the 1896 disaster. After a further three fatalities in the early 1880s following roof falls, 53-year-old George Mosby was crushed to death by a stone on 6 September 1886. Fellow miner, Samuel Marriott heard his cry, and found him in the goaf, his legs crushed under the stone. Marriott and John Sutton, managed to free him after 15 minutes and put him in a corf, but Mosby died 15 minutes later. John Gerrard, Inspector of Mines attended the coroner’s inquest.〔Major Thomas Taylor, Coroner’s Report, Wednesday 8 September 1886〕 Samuel Marriott would also survive the 1896 Disaster, as would George Mosby’s son, Lot. John Sutton however would be killed.
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