Manvers Main Colliery roof fall, 1892

A dataller and a sixteen-year-old driver were killed by a fall of stone at Manvers Main Colliery, Wath-upon-Dearne, near the end of the night shift on 9 May 1892.

Cause

A fall of stone underground.

What happened

At 5.40 in the morning of 9 May 1892, in the eighth hour of the night shift, a fall of stone at Manvers Main Colliery, Wath-upon-Dearne, killed the dataller A. Johnson, 40, and the driver J. Wood, 16.

Recorded claims

Individual factual claims, each attached to the source(s) that support it below. Where sources disagree, both are kept.

• At 5.40 a.m. on 9 May 1892, in the eighth hour of the shift, the dataller A. Johnson, 40, and the driver J. Wood, 16, were killed at Manvers Main Colliery. ^1,2,3
• They were killed by a fall of stone. ^1,2,3
• The colliery belonged to the Manvers Main Coal Company. ^2,3

Related terminology

Mining terms this disaster is structurally linked to, with the nature of the relationship.

• Colliery (contextual relationship)
  Named twice in this record, first in the summary: “…driver were killed by a fall of stone at Manvers Main Colliery, Wath-upon-Dearne, near the end of the night shift on 9 May 1892.”
• Dataller (contextual relationship)
  Named twice in this record, first in the summary: “A dataller and a sixteen-year-old driver were killed by a fall of stone at…”

Sources

1. (primary) Manvers Main Colliery — Durham Mining Museum
2. (secondary) Mining deaths 1890-1899, surnames W part 7 (Ian Winstanley) — Healey Hero (Ian Winstanley's mining deaths lists)
3. (secondary) Mining deaths 1890-1899, surnames J part 2 (Ian Winstanley) — Healey Hero (Ian Winstanley's mining deaths lists)

Record created: 8 October 2026 · Last researched: 8 October 2026