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Thomas Dodds
| Age: | 32 |
| Died: | 2nd Oct 1847 |
| Accident: | 2nd Oct 1847 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1815 |
| Colliery: | Hazard |
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| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Notes: | On the evening of Saturday, 2 October, labourer Thomas Dodds, 32, went down Hazard Pit, East Rainton in company with the 'keeker' to shut a water tap about 100 yards from the bottom of the shaft. This completed, they returned to an opening in the shaft about seven fathoms higher, and on arriving there gave the usual signal and 'the brakesman brought up the tub to them.' Dodds was about to get in, but slipped between it and the bunting and fell into the sump at the bottom of the shaft. It took an hour to recover his body using grappling irons. |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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