Miners involved in Queensland mining accidents (1882-1900) - surnames beginning with Ta-Ti

Name

Date

District

Name Of Mine

Remarks

Source

Talbot, John

25 Mar 1892

Charters Towers

Craven's Caledonian

Injured. Struck by handle of windlass. (Scalp wound)

1893/3/662

Tansey, John

1 Dec 1891

Etheridge

Durham

Killed. Fell from ladder.

1892/4/319

Tapp, William

22 Apr 1892

Ipswich

Aberdare Colliery

Injured. Fall of roof from a small slip or hitch whereby sufferer was very slightly injured. (Slightly bruised)

1893/3/622

Taylor, Alfred

23 Jul 1890

Charters Towers

Day Dawn P.C.

Injured. Fall of rock. (Severe bruises on thigh)

1891/4/340

Taylor, James

8 Mar 1894

Eidsvold

Mount Rose and Stockman

Injured. Fall of rock. (Bruised foot)

1895/3/572

Taylor, Joseph

18 Aug 1896

Charters Towers

Victory No. 2 Mine

Injured. Sufferer (the manager) was examining the stopes and came to a charged hole which exploded when near it. (Injury to eyesight)

1897/4/130

Taylor, William

22 Apr 1892

Ipswich

Aberdare Colliery

Injured. Fall of roof from a small slip or hitch whereby sufferer was very slightly injured. (Slightly bruised)

1893/3/662

Telford, Sarah W.

30 Apr 1900

Charters Towers

Gough's Sand Claim

Killed. Clothes caught on revolving shaft. (Machinery)

1901/4/464

Tennant, James

16 Feb 1897

Gympie

Australasian

Injured. Caught in pump of surface engine when starting it. (Fingers broken and bruised

1898/3/125

Ternant, John

9 May 1896

Charters Towers

Brilliant Block

Killed. Shaft accident through breaking of the knocker-line. (Fractured skull)

1897/4/129

Tewkesbury, Joseph

10 Apr 1896

Gympie

Lucknow P.C.

Injured. Fall of rock. (Scalp wound and injured hand)

1897/4/128

Thistler, William

16 Jun 1893

Etheridge

Independence Extended

Killed. Fall of hanging wall. (Crushed to death)

1894/3/932

Thomas, Alfred

14 Mar 1898

Charters Towers

Moonstone Consols

Injured. Fall of rock whilst working off a shot. (Bruised foot)

1899/3/419

Thomas, Charles

8 Jun 1885

Charters Towers

N.Queen L. 416.

Killed. Explosion of nitro-glycerine (from dynamite) in water.

1886/3/76

Thomas, David

22 Feb 1900

Gympie

Columbia Consolidated

Injured. Falling stone dislodged by ascending bucket. (Scalp wound)

1901/4/463

Thomas, John M.

22 Feb 1894

Charters Towers

Brilliant Central

Injured. Foot slipped by treading on a loose stone in travelling pass. (Sprained ankle)

1895/3/571

Thomas, Lewis

11 Jul 1889

Maryborough

Torbanlea

Killed. Fell down shaft.

1890/3/354

Thomas, Richard

05 Jun 1890

Charters Towers

New Limestone Bluff

Killed. Fell down underlie shaft.

1891/4/340

Thomas, Richard

11 Jun 1896

Charters Towers

Day Dawn P.C. No.3 Shaft

Injured. In sending up the pneumatic drill it became entangled with the ladder and detached it. It struck sufferer as it fell. (Contusions)

1897/4/129

Thomas, William

05 Jan 1889

Charters Towers

Bonnie Dundee

Injured. Shaft accident, platform insecurely fixed and fell away. (Sprained ankle)

1890/3/353

Thomas, William

28 Feb 1894

Charters Towers

Golden Gate

Injured. Mounted a truck full of tools and was knocked off by first cap-piece. In addition to the injury he was fined 5 pounds for the offence. (Incised wound on knee)

1895/3/572

Thompson, Alex.

15 Aug 1898

Clermont C.D.

Abandoned shaft

Killed. Went into old shaft about 5 feet to work and the earth fell from the side soon after he began, and buried him. (Crushed to death)

1899/3/420

Thompson, Enoch

16 Jul 1892

Rockhampton

Mount Morgan

Injured. Falling off a ladder. (Hand bruised)

1893/3/663

Thompson, J.

1 May 1895

Charters Towers

Carrington

Injured. Whilst descending the shaft the pulley at top had worn through the bearing and fell out and clear of the shaft but the fall of the bucket injured those on it. (Severe wound on thigh)

1896/4/147

Thompson, James

9 Mar 1895

Charters Towers

Victory and Caledonian Block

Injured. Explosion of dynamite left in hole after the charge has been fired. (Hip and left eye injured and injury to hand)

1896/4/146

Thompson, James

14 Nov 1899

Gympie

Oriental and Glanmire

Injured. Fall of rock. (Cut on forehead and bruised leg and knee)

1900/2/261

Thompson, John

7 Jun 1890

Rockhampton

Mount Morgan

Injured. A piece of timber fell on him. (Broken leg)

1891/4/340

Thompson, Osbourne

3 Oct 1894

Charters Towers

No. 6 N. E. Queen

Injured. Fall of rock in shaft when timbering up. (Fracture of Skull)

1895/3/574

Thompson, William

8 Apr 1889

Rockhampton

Mount Morgan

Injured, Timber fell on him outside mine. (Thigh broken)

1890/3/353

Thompson, William

15 Dec 1890

Charters Towers

Day Dawn P.C.

Injured. Fall of rock from face. (Sprained ankle)

1891/4/342

Thoms, Albert

3 Dec 1898

Gympie

North Smithfield

Injured. Fell down shoot. (Flesh wounds)

1899/3/421

Thornburn, William

3 Jan 1894

Ravenswood

Overlander

Injured. Fall of rock from behind the stulling caught sufferers arm. (Incised wound on arm)

1895/3/571

Tibbetts, John

4 Jun 1895

Ipswich

Dinmore

Killed. Sufferer and two others were on fixed stage, when the planks which were being lowered slipped and knocked part of the stage away and he fell to the bottom, about 240 feet. (Fatal; drowned)

1896/4/147

Tidbury, William

22 May 1893

Ravenswood

Saratoga Extended Claim

Injured. Fall of earth. (Slightly crushed)

1894/3/932

Tierney, T.

29 Nov 1899

Gympie

Scottish Gympie G.M.

Injured. Struck by descending truck. (Cut on forehead)

1900/2/261

Tippet, Wiliam

7 Jan 1888

Charters Towers

Day Dawn and P.C.

Injured. Carelessness on the part of others when blasting. (Broken arm and injury to sight)

1889/3/537