1899 23 May 7/6 An explosion of firedamp occurred yesterday morning at the Benarty Pit... At the time James Morton, 41, pit inspector,..[was] in the mine repairing roads.
1923 28 Sept. 12/5 Edward Dunn, pit inspector for the men at Maltby, agreed..that there had been no uniform method of working the pit since the coal-getting began there twelve years ago.
2003 (Nexis) 20 Dec. 12 In 1964 he was elected workman's pit inspector for Rufford Colliery.