Planting Pit Birley Vale. On Tuesday 9 October 1866 William Turner of Bird Field was killed by a fall of bind, he was extricated and removed home but died in two hours leaving a wife and three children. In 1869 a quantity of coal fell on William Hirst on Thursday 18 February 1869 and killed him on the spot. He was 30 years old and left a widow and three children. In 1869 Henry Liversage was run over by a loaded cove (wagon) and crushed his right leg. In 1869 on Saturday 18 September James Ellis aged 12 of Hollinsend was caught by a cove and dragged some considerable distance. In May 1871 Joseph Pankethman, 38 years of age died following an accident six weeks previously at Birley Vale Colliery. In August 1872 Samuel Warren a horsekeeper was run over by a "corve" he was removed to Sheffield Infirmary but died later. On 19 October 1872. Fatal Accident Birley Vale Colliery. On Saturday morning, about ten o'clock, a number of men were engaged removing a pump in the workings of the above colliery. The pump is worked by endless chain communicating with an engine at the top, and owing to some mistake in the signal given to the engineman the machinery was set in motion, and young man named Willis Marples, residing at Gleadless, was caught the chain and drawn through a narrow opening, and instantaneously killed. In March 1873 at Birley Vale Colliery, William Wheeler (40) an experienced pitman of Handsworth Woodhouse was knocked over by full wagons on the inclined plane and three passed over him, he died in 10 minutes. Inquest jury returned "Accidentally run over by colliery wagons". On Friday 12 June 1874 Benjamin Hutchinson (36) was killed by a large quantity of earth from the roof fell on him. In June 1876 six miners were killed in an explosion at the Birley Plantain Colliery. They were Ellis Cooper of Normanton Springs, leaves a widow and five children James Woodward, Ridgeway Moor, single Thomas Marples sen Hollinsend widow and two children, Thomas Marples jun nephew of above Gleadless widow and two children, Edward Saville Birley widow and eight children and Joseph Kelley Hollinsend widow. The Coroner's jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the fire-trier— William Clayton—and censured the manager and underviewer for their loose and inefficient management. In 1876 a miner Jonathan Harrison (50) of