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Simpson Parkin
| Age: | 55 |
| Died: | 15th Nov 1881 |
| Accident: | 15th Nov 1881 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1826 |
| Colliery: | Boosbeck (Ironstone) |
| Company: | Stevenson, Jacques and Co. |
| Occupation: | Shifter |
| Notes: | suffocated by fumes from an underground engine, a fall had closed the air way and sent the smoke back, which overpowered him |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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No. 22 on the list took place at Boosbeck Mine causing the death of Simpson Parkin, a shifter, by suffocation ; it appears it had been found necessary to put in a small engine to pump water out of one of the deep ways about 500 yards below the shaft, and for this purpose a boiler was fixed by the roadside on the main intake with a pipe to flue to carry off the smoke and fumes into the return airway ; this return was connected with another from a farther off district, where Parkin was working ; and a close fall of roof having taken place on the outbye side of the junction of these airways, caused the fumes from the engine to travel back into this far off district, and work round to another return airway ; in doing so it had to pass the place where deceased was working; he was so overpowered that he died before he could be got out of the mine, four of five other men being very much affected, narrowly escaped a similar fate.
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- 1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241) Where to find this report
- 1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241), Durham District by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 482, Accident Number: 22 Where to find this report
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