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James Brown
| Age: | 32 |
| Died: | 4th Feb 1883 |
| Accident: | 4th Feb 1883 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1851 |
| Colliery: | Trimdon Grange |
| Company: | Walter Scott |
| Occupation: | Shaftman |
| Notes: | fell from main coal to low main, a distance of 44 yards |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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No. 8 on the coal mines list occurred in the shaft at Trimdon Grange Colliery ; while James Brown, an assistant shaft-man, and three others were clearing some old timber out of the shaft on Sunday the 4th February, they hung a stringing plank, 15 feet long, on to the jack engine rope to have it raised to bank ; Brown got on a bunton and fastened the rope to the plank ; about 12 feet above him was a scaffold, on which were two of the other men prepared to guide the plank past the scaffold ; the end of the plank caught the scaffold however, and loosened part of it, which fell on to Brown and knocked him down the shaft ; it was supposed that he himself had been trying to guide the plank and had caused it to strike the bunton. He had been asked to come off the bunton before the engine was started, but he said he was all right where he was.
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