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John Emmerson
| Age: | 29 |
| Died: | 14th May 1868 |
| Accident: | 14th May 1868 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1839 |
| Colliery: | Wingate Grange |
| Company: | Executors of late J. Gully |
| Occupation: | Hewer |
| Notes: | fell out of an iron tub to a distance of 20 fathoms |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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Fatal Accidents in Shafts.
No. 41 accident in the list caused the death of a coal hewer, who fell out of an iron tub, in which he, along with another hewer, was being lowered from the main coal down to the low main coal seam. The tub in the first place appears to have been caught and suspended by a slightly projecting skating or guiding deal end ; its descent being thus arrested some slack chain at the low end of the winding rope appears to have accumulated, and after this the tub appears to have become liberated and to have fallen away, the jerk causing the deceased to lose his hold and to fall out of the tub, and to the bottom of the shaft, causing his death.
It appears to be probable that they had not placed themselves properly in the tub, so as to balance and keep it in a vertical position, owing to which it probably was caught by the projecting end of the guiding or skating deal ; the depth which the victim would fall would be about 20 fathoms.
The main coal seam, from near the level of which the deceased fell, had, until very shortly before the accident, been the lowest seam of coal that had been worked at the colliery, and as the low main coal seam at a depth of about 20 fathoms beneath it had only been sunk to a short-time previously, the application of guides and cages had not, at the time of the occurrence, been introduced between the two seams, and hence the ordinary mode of ascending and descending in such cases by means of a tub was in use at the time.
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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: 23, Accident Number: 41
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