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Francis Park
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| Died: | 14th Mar 1868 |
| Accident: | 14th Mar 1868 |
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| Colliery: | West Auckland |
| Company: | Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co. |
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| Notes: | he was descending the shaft by ladder, when he was about 10 yards from the bottom, he slipped and fell, fracturing his leg; he was taken to bank where a doctor set the leg; later, lockjaw set in and he "died in great agony on Saturday" |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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Fatal Accidents in Shafts.
No. 24 accident was the case of a workman, while descending a series of 14 ladders in a shaft by which the workmen enter and leave the mine. The deceased appears to have thought that he had reached the bottom of the shaft when he was the height of either one or two ladders' lengths above it, and so to have slipped down and rolled or fallen to the bottom of the shaft.
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- 1868 Mines Inspectors Report, South Durham District by John J. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 14
- 1868 Mines Inspectors Report, South Durham District by John J. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 22, Accident Number: 24
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