Accident Date | Name | Nationality | Occupation | Age | Married/Single | # Widows | #Orphans | Name of Colliery | County | Nature & Cause of Accident in Brief |
Jan-19 | Joseph Antol | Slavonian | Miner | 53 | M | 1 | 1 | Taylor | Lackawanna | Fatally injured by being struck by fall of "bell" roof 10 feet from face. |
Feb-06 | John Shield | American | Brake-man | 21 | S | … | … | Pyne | Lackawanna | Right leg fractured and left leg cut by by being run over by cars on gangway road.Sometime after accident gangrene set in and he died February 6 |
Feb-07 | Charles Brady | Polish | Miner | 32 | M | 1 | 2 | Spring Brook | Lackawanna | Back broken by fall of slate at face. Died February 21. |
Feb-28 | Steve Olosky | Slavonian | Laborer | 17 | S | … | … | Halstead | Luzerne | Killed by trip of cars while wandering along gangway road. |
Mar-16 | John Waskel | Polish | Laborer | 25 | S | … | … | Langcliffe | Luzerne | Killed by falling down shaft. While ascending shaft on cage, he became dizzy and fell off the cage |
Mar-20 | Alec Banosky | Polish | Miner | 27 | M | 1 | … | Old Forge | Lackawanna | Killed by fall of roof at face of pillar. |
Apr-01 | Joe Friedman | Hebrew | Laborer | 42 | M | 1 | 6 | Jermyn Nos.1, 2, 3 | Lackawanna | Killed by a conveyor line falling on him under under breaker. Outside |
Apr-03 | William Goponski | Polish | Miner | 29 | S | … | … | Consolidated | Luzerne | Killed by fall of roof at face of pillar. |
Apr-17 | Fred Owens | American | Miner | 27 | M | 1 | 1 | Jermyn Nos.1, 2, 3 | Lackawanna | Killed by fall of roof at face. |
May-03 | Thomas Walsh | American | Miner | 38 | M | 1 | 2 | Central | Luzerne | Killed by fall of roof at face of chamber. |
Charles Notari | Italian | Laborer | 23 | S | … | … | "" | "" | Killed by fall of roof at face of chamber. | |
May-10 | Rose Scavie | Italian | Miner | 41 | M | 1 | 4 | Old Forge | Lackawanna | Killed by fall of roof at end of pillar. |
May-12 | Anthony Orloczeniski | Lithuanian | Miner | 26 | M | 1 | … | Halstead | Luzerne | Killed by blast. He placed gas squib in hole lighted it and retired to crosscut. After waiting about fifteen minutes he returned and as he reached the face the blast exploded. |
May-26 | Adam Shamonic | Lithuanian | Miner | 38 | M | 1 | … | Jermyn Nos. 1,2, 3 | Lackawanna | Killed by fall of roof at face of pillar. |
Alec Jacobovitch | Lithuanian | Laborer | 30 | S | … | … | Jermyn Nos. 1,2, 4 | "" | Killed by fall of roof at face of pillar. | |
May-29 | Edward Prieste | English | Miner | 43 | M | 1 | 4 | "" | "" | Killed by fall of roof at face, while robbing pillars |
Jun-22 | James Solorao | Italian | Miner | 50 | M | 1 | 4 | "" | "" | Fatally injured by being thrown on top beam of car. He placed a mining rail from rib to top of car to be used as a scaffold while drilling hole in top coal at face of chamber. The rail slipped and threw him on top beam of car. |
Jul-19 | John Guskuskie | Polish | Miner | 44 | M | 1 | 8 | Central | Luzerne | Killed by fall of roof at face while robbing pillars. |
Jul-25 | Thomas Johns | Welsh | Laborer | 98? | S | … | … | Taylor | Lackawanna | Killed by fall of roof 18 feet from face of chamber. |
Aug-01 | Nicholas Credell | Italian | Miner | 28 | M | 1 | … | Jermyn Nos. 1, 2, 3 | Lackawanna | Killed by fall of top coal at end of pillar while robbing same. |
Oct-17 | William T. Williams | Welsh | Miner | 48 | M | 1 | … | Sibley | Lackawanna | Fatally burned about head, shoulders, breast, hands and arms, while charging a hole. Cartridge stuck in hole and he rammed powder back with scraper causing explosion. |
Oct-24 | Waddick Keyslutsky | Russian | Miner | 46 | M | 1 | 6 | Jermyn Nos. 1,2, 3 | Lackawanna | Killed by fall of roof at face. |
David Perry | American | Miner | 28 | S | … | … | Taylor | Lackawanna | Killed by being squeezed between car and rib on rock road | |
Oct-27 | Thomas Griffin | Irish | Miner | 27 | M | 1 | 1 | Sibley | Lackawanna | Killed by fall of roof at face while restanding a prop |
Dec-01 | Thomas Hession | Irish | Miner | 58 | M | 1 | … | Taylor | Lackawanna | Killed by fall of roof at face of chamber. |
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