Miners involved in Queensland mining accidents (1882-1900) - surnames beginning with La-Le

Name

Date

District

Name Of Mine

Remarks

Source

Lahmaman, Fred.

11 Aug 1898

Croydon

Mountain Maid

Injured. Fall of rock whilst working off a shot. (Severe bruises)

1899/3/420

Laird, Alexander

14 Apr 1891

Charters Towers

Brillant Worester and Victory

Injured. Materials falling down shaft. (Fractured skull and wounds)

1892/4/317

Laird, Alexander

6 Jun 1894

Charters Towers

Band of Hope

Injured. Sufferer was in the shaft sinking and sent up a bucket of stuff, which on reaching the timbering scattered a shower of small stones, one of which caught sufferer. (Fracture of skull)

1895/3/573

Lands, Robert

24 May 1888

Gympie

No. 1 Sth. Phoenix

Killed. Riding in cage with four others and loose drills; heel caught top of chamber and was bruised; tetanus supervened, and sufferer died on the 30th. (Heel crushed)

1889/3/538

Lane, David

27 Aug 1888

Gympie

Ellen Harkins

Injured. Lever of cage jammed arm between cross bars. (Broken arm)

1889/3/539

Lanehan, Charles

15 Nov 1886

Ravenswood

John Bull

Injured. Fall of a truck in underlie. (Bruises and broken ribs)

1887/3/931

Lang, James

19 May 1890

Charters Towers

Brilliant P.C.

Injured. Fall of rock. (Bruised)

1891/4/340

Lang, T.

25 Mar 1887

Gympie

No. 1 North Phoenix

Injured. Fell from a staging plank. (Slightly wounded)

1888/3/471

Lanstrom, Martin

1 Jul 1892

Normanby

Welcome (Bowen)

Injured. Accidental explosion of blasting compounds. (Face burnt)

1893/3/663

Larcombe, Thomas

10 Apr 1889

Gympie

Wilmot Extended

Killed. Fell from ladder in a pass.

1890/3/353

Larkin, James

20 Feb 1884

Charters Towers

3 and 4 Just-in-Time

Killed. Explosion of gas. One died in the hospital while suffering from the injuries received. (Face and body burnt)

1885/3/86

Law, John

21 Nov 1884

Gympie

Ellen Harkins

Injured. Piece of quartz struck him while at work. (Lost an eye)

1885/3/87

Lawlor, Martin

30 May 1892

Charters Towers

Brillint Block

Injured. Materials fell down shaft. (Fractured leg)

1893/3/662

Layde, Stephen

8 Aug 1888

Croydon

Bradlaugh Lease

Injured. (Hand and face damaged)

1889/3/538

Lea, Robert

6 Jan 1882

Gympie

No. 1 North Phoenix

Injured. Recovered. This accident arose from want of care on reaching the top of the shaft and general carelessness in the arrangements: a loose bucket stood on the landing boards and was pulled in by the falling man which probably inflicted the scalp wound. (Fell 24 feet into water receiving a scalp wound and bruises)

1883/1/531

Leadbitter, Wm.

31 Dec 1900

Charters Towers

Brilliant Central

Injured. After firing a fall occurred, a small piece striking the sufferer. He was not hurt much but blood poisoning occurred. (Wounded leg)

1901/4/467

Leahy, Con.

10 Jun 1891

Gympie

3 Great Eastern

Killed. Bucket for drawing water lifted a pin and dropped it down the shaft upon the head of deceased who was sinking. (Fractured skull)

1892/4/317

Lear, Thomas

15 Jan 1896

Charters Towers

Brilliant and St. George

Injured. Whilst getting out of the skip the engine was moved owing to an accidental signal. (Bruised ankle)

1897/4/128

Lear, Thomas

18 Apr 1896

Charters Towers

Brilliant Block

Killed. Deceased was found by the trucker crushed under a fall of rock which had been sounded by the manager and himself shortly before, and considered safe.

1897/4/129

Learoyd, --

3 Mar 1882

Gympie

Golden Crown

Injured. Boring in butt of old hole, shot exploded. (Flesh wound)

1883/1/531

Learston, William

18 Apr 1889

Ipswich

Aberdare

Killed. Fall of coal.

1890/3/354

Lee, John

20 Nov 1891

Etheridge

Durham

Injured. Fell from ladder. (Very much bruised)

1892/4/319

Lee, William

12 Dec 1895

Gympie

No. 8 South Lady Mary

Killed. A charge, exploded by one of the other workmen, blew into some old workings, causing an influx of water, drowning this man and injured others during their efforts to escape.

1896/4/149

Leeson, H.

15 Jun 1895

Burnett

Biggenden

Injured. Accidentally let go the handle of the windlass and was struck by it. (Bruised face)

1896/4/147

Lefeldt, Henry

19 Jan 1892

Charters Towers

Day Dawn P.C.

Injured. Engine reversing unobserved bucket went down. (Bruised foot)

1893/3/661

Leishman, R.

26 Mar 1891

Gayndah

Paradise P.C.

Injured. Incautiously jumped off ladder. (Bruised ankle)

1892/4/316

Leishman, William

16 Jan 1883

Gympie

No. 1 N. Phoenix

Injured. This man put his head into the shaft at a level to speak to a man below and was caught by the descending cage, the gates were unclasped and the sufferer thereby escaped certain death. (Face bruised)

1884/3/233

Leman, James

17 Sep 1891

Charters Towers

Brilliant and St. George United

Injured. Fall of rock. (Broken leg)

1892/4/318

Leneghan, Charles

10 Jul 1890

Ravenswood

John Bull P.C.

Injured. Fall of rock. (Loss of portion of fingers)

1891/4/340

Lennan, Heber

8 Jul 1892

Palmer

Lady Mary (Four miles from Maytown)

Killed. Fall of rock.

1893/3/663

Lennon, --

12 Dec 1889

Ravenswood

John Bull Block

Injured. Fall of rock. (Scalp wound)

1890/3/355

Lennon, Pat.

2 Aug 1892

Charters Towers

Day Dawn P.C.

Killed. Three men were sinking a shaft, and one of the preceding shift's charges had not gone off, while the tamping was being cleared from it, it exploded, with the result as shown.

1893/3/663

Leodi, Thomas

2 May 1894

Gympie

No.1 S. Great Eastern.

Injured. Fall of a hammer. (Cut on forehead)

1895/3/572

Leonard, John

30 Oct 1891

Etheridge

Anna Day Extended

Injured. Fall of rock. (Injury to arm)

1892/4/318

Lester, Henry

28 Jun 1893

Charters Towers

Day Dawn .P.C. No 5 Shaft

Injured. Material falling down shaft. (Bruised leg)

1894/3/932

Lewis, Edwin.

2 Nov 1893

Stanthorpe

Sundown Creek

Injured. Fall of earth commencing on a lode in the face of the cliff in open daylight, rock and soil fell from divisional plane.  (Broken leg and other injuries)

1894/3/933

Lewis, James

15 Jan 1890

Ipswich

Aberdare

Killed. Fall of rock. (Crushed on body)

1891/4/339

Lewis, James

5 Nov 1894

Gladstone

Victory Battery (Monal)

Killed. Fell from a stage and suffered a return of a former complaint, and no surgical aid being available he died in three days.

1895/3/574

Lewis, John

1 Aug 1895

Etheridge

Golden Chain Western Creek

Killed. By a fall of quartz. Died in hospital shortly after admission.

1896/4/148