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Joseph Robinson
| Age: | 38 |
| Died: | 21st Nov 1881 |
| Accident: | 21st Nov 1881 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1843 |
| Colliery: | Greenlaws (Metalliferous) |
| Company: | W. B. Beaumont |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Notes: | suffocated by gas while climbing a rise to another level |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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No. 5 on the list took place at the Green Laws Mine, where Joseph Robinson was suffocated by gases ; it appears that deceased and Thomas Eggleston went to work in a rise in the quarry level of Green Laws Lead Mine; the rise was 14 fathoms up, and when they had climbed up about eight fathoms both their candles went out owing to foul air. They tried to re-light them with matches but could not, and Robinson said he would go up to the end of the Air-box and light his candle there. Eggleston advised him not to do so, but he went, and, when about three fathoms from the top, was overcome by the foul air and suffocated. The rise was ventilated by 5-inch air boxes from a water blast, with a column of eight fathoms, but the current had been too feeble to sweep away the foul air which had escaped from the strata during a falling barometer. These two men had driven the rise from the level, and Eggleston said it was usually well ventilated, but that occasionally, when there was a change in the weather, they had seen foul air, and gone home. They did not report this to anyone, and the agent said he was not aware of it.
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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: 483, Accident Number: 5 Where to find this report
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