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Alexander Morris
| Age: | 28 |
| Died: | 29th Jun 1858 |
| Accident: | 29th Jun 1858 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1830 |
| Colliery: | Little Bolton |
| Company: | Andrew Knowles and Sons |
| Occupation: | Hooker on |
| Notes: | Balance chain breaking as he was descending the shaft |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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In the shaft accident at the Little Bolton Colliery on the 29th of June, a single-linked chain, substituted a few months before for a rope, by which a large iron balance weight, weighing several hundredweight, used in the upper part of the winding shaft broke, and the weight struck the deceased who was descending. It is not common to have a balance weight in the winding pit, and a single-linked chain should not be used for raising or lowering persons, or overhead. A caution which I gave as to a new pit that the owners were sinking with a single-linked chain the preceding year was met by the reply that the pit was not comprised by the Act, although the danger is the same whether so comprised or not.
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- 1858 Mines Inspectors Report, North and East Lancashire District, by Joseph Dickinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 35, Accident Number: 31
- 1858 Mines Inspectors Report, North and East Lancashire District, by Joseph Dickinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 40
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