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Joseph White
| Age: | 10 |
| Died: | 25th Sep 1858 |
| Accident: | 25th Sep 1858 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1848 |
| Colliery: | Sherburn |
| Company: | Earl of Durham |
| Occupation: | Trapper |
| Notes: | supposed to have fallen down the shaft |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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No. 60 accident in the list appears to have arisen from a boy falling from a part of the way down a shaft to the bottom ; it was conjectured that he had got into the cage at the bottom of the pit and been drawn a part of the way up the shaft after the onsetter had left; as the workmen were not allowed to ascend that shaft, and no one knew of his being there, it was supposed that he, being nearly a stranger in the pit, had by mistake gone to that shaft, and in the absence of the onsetter got into the cage and been drawn up the shaft with it to where it had to remain during the night. There was no evidence to show how he had fallen from the cage to the bottom of the pit; indeed, all was conjecture, excepting his being found much injured, as if by a fall, near the bottom of the shaft after the workmen had left the mine by another shaft, some time after the working of the pit had ceased for the day.
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- 1858 Mines Inspectors Report
- 1858 Mines Inspectors Report, Southern District by John J. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 31, Accident Number: 60
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