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19th March 1862
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MAN KILLED AT M I R F I E L D .—
On Monday afternoon, Henry Byewater, painter, was whitewashing
the engine-house of the Britannia Mill, belonging to Mr. J. M. Johnson, near the Mirfield Railway Station, when it is supposed, through the scaffolding giving way, he was
precipitated to the floor, a distance of thirty feet, and was killed. The left arm was broken and severely lacerated, and his neck was also dislocated. He was left by Nobles,
the engine-tenter, at twenty' minutes to six alive and doing his work, and on returning at six to start the engine, Nobles found him on the floor as stated. He leaves a
wife and four small children.
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8th January 1862
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T H E SHAFT ACCIDENT AT NEWTOWN MILL, MIRFIELD.—
An inquest was
held at the Forester's Arms, Huddersfield, yesterday evening, before J. R. Ingram, Esq., deputy coroner, on the body of Christopher Smith, plasterer, Dewsbury. It appeared
that the deceased, on Tuesday, week, was working in Newtown Mill, Mirfield, whitewashing over a shaft, when it caught him by his Guernsey smock and he was thrown round the
shaft repeatedly. The engine was immediately stopped, the man released, attended by two medical men, and conveyed to the Huddersfield Infirmary. He died on Sunday afternoon
from injuries sustained by severe bruises on his feet and a scalp wound on the forehead, resulting from his being violently thrown against a window whilst rapidly revolving
with the shaft. It appears from the evidence that the deceased had been twice cautioned against approaching the shaft; that the mill had been closed four days for whitewashing
purposes, and on several days only kept running from eight a.m. to four p.m. on the same account; that had there been a little management on the part of the whitewasher, the
room in which the shafting was placed might have been whitewashed when the machinery was at a standstill; also, that if ordinary care had been used by the deceased himself
after the cautions he had received he would not have been caught. Under these circumstances the jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and recommended greater
precautions to be taken as to what rooms were whitewashed whilst machinery was in motion in future, but abstained from censuring any person in connection with the death of the
deceased.
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10th July 1852
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ACCIDENT.—
Yesterday week a serious accident befel one of the daughters
of Joseph Sykes, of Lee Green, in Mirfield. She had been sent by her mother to Low Mill, occupied by Messrs. Day and Fox, with her sister's dinner, and while she was there
went into a room in which a "Teazer" was at work, and although she had been cautioned to keep away from it, she went so near as to be caught, and both her arms were
torn off above the elbows. She was removed home, and three surgeons called in to attend her, and is now doing well. Not the slightest blame is attached to Messrs. Day and Fox,
or to any of the workmen, for the girl had been told to stay out of the room only a short time before the accident occurred.
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30th August 1856
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MIRFIELD.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT MIRFIELD.—
On Tuesday last, an inquest was held at the house of Mr.
Ernest Kindler, the New Inn, Newtown, Mirfield, before Thomas Taylor, Esq., coroner, on the body of Richard Fearnley, aged 22 years. The deceased was employed at the mill of
Sir. Edward Hemingway, and, about ten o'clock on the morning of the previous day, along with a person named Crabtree, arrived to clean a carder. Crabtree threw the strap
off the machine, and by some means deceased was caught and taken twice round the drum. The strap then broke, and he fell on the floor quite dead, having in his way round the
drum struck his head against and knocked down a steam pipe. A verdict of "Accidental Death" was returned.
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