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Samuel Skidmore
| Age: | 24 |
| Died: | 6th Nov 1889 |
| Accident: | 31st Oct 1889 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1865 |
| Colliery: | Saltwells |
| Company: | Earl of Dudley |
| Occupation: | Pikeman |
| Notes: | Explosion of firedamp. Died 6th Nov |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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Explosions of Fire-damp.
Four men were at work in a stall in the thick coal seam of the No. 30 Pit of the Saltwells Colliery on the 31st October. This stall had a rapid rise to a large fault which it had bared and the men were at work some 15 yards horizontally and 8 yards vertically from this fault and at its lower end. At this point the air current entered by a head, passed across the stall and left it by another head into the next stall. In this stall four other men were at work. There was a sudden fall in the higher part of the first stall against the fault which dislodged some fire-damp; the air current carried it with it into the next stall, where the second set of four men were at work. It exploded at their candles, and all the four were burnt, and two of them sunk under their injuries. The men in the stall whence the gas escaped received no injury and felt no inconvenience, the strength of the air current having been their salvation. No fire-damp could be detected upon examination immediately after the explosion, nor could I during my own investigation next day find any, nor yet at a subsequent visit. The cause undoubtedly was the sudden fall releasing and bringing gas down with it, and the air current carrying it upon the naked lights.
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- 1889 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6015), South Staffordshire District (No. 11) by W. Beatie Scott, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 11 Where to find this report
- 1889 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6015), South Staffordshire District (No. 11) by W. Beatie Scott, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 20, Accident Number: 33 Where to find this report
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