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Thomas Moor
| Age: | 26 |
| Died: | 13th Jan 1847 |
| Accident: | 13th Jan 1847 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1821 |
| Colliery: | Ludworth |
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| Occupation: | Banksman |
| Notes: | hit by part of the pulley wheel in a cage overwind |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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Thomas Moor, a 26 year old banksman at Ludworth Pit, was at work at the upcast shaft on 13 January. The engineman, Russell, had begun to draw up one cage containing tubs of coal and to lower another which was empty. He left the handles for a moment to speak to the fireman, and the engine somehow reversed itself. "The empty cage was drawn up with great violence against the pulleys over which the rope worked — breaking them to pieces, as well as the shear legs upon which the pulleys rested." Moor and his partner, on seeing that the cage was ascending the shaft at a very quick and dangerous rate, ran away, but Moor was hit by part of the wheel and critically injured. He died later the same day.
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- Contributions by members of the Public
- Text kindly provided by Jim Grainger from his research into early newspapers (primarily the Durham Advertiser and Durham Chronicle).
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