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George Wright
| Age: | 18 |
| Died: | 20th Aug 1891 |
| Accident: | 19th Aug 1891 11:00 AM, 5th hour of shift |
| Year Born: | abt. 1873 |
| Colliery: | Shildon Lodge |
| Company: | Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., Ltd. |
| Occupation: | Incline Boy |
| Notes: | by a tub being carelessly sent down an incline he was caught while attempting to stop it, run over, and killed |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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No. 42 on the list occurred at Shildon Lodge Colliery, belonging to Messrs. Bolckow, Vaughan & Co., Limited, on the 19th of August, about 11 o'clock a.m., causing the death of George Wright, an incline boy. The seam in which he was employed is, at the point where this accident happened, highly inclined, the gradient being 1 in 6. There were two self-acting incline, one above the other, deceased having charge of the wheel belonging to the lower one. He was braking down four tubs when a tub ran amain down the incline above him. He left his wheel and tried to get into a place of safety. In doing so, however, he slipped and fell, and before he could get up the empty tubs on the incline he had charge of came up and ran over him, inflicting such injuries that he died on the following day. It transpired that if he had remained at the brake handle he would have been out of danger, as he would have been able to control the empty tubs which ran over him. The one which came amain from the other incline did not get to where he was. How the tubs got away is a mystery, but I am inclined to think that the chock against which the tubs rest until a set is made up had not been properly put in by the man in charge of it.
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Columns: 1: No. of Accident ; 2: Date and Hour of the Accident ; 3: Hour of the Person's Shift, i.e. No of Hours he had been at work when the Accident happened to him ; 3: Name of the Mine or Colliery ; 4: Where situate ; 5: Name of the Owner or Company ; 6: Persons killed ; 7: Reputed Age ; 8: Occupation ; 9: Cause of Accident, and Remarks |
- 1891 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6625), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 10 Where to find this report
- 1891 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6625), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 31, Accident Number: 42 Where to find this report
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