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Isaac Storrow
| Age: | 53 |
| Died: | 25th Dec 1892 |
| Accident: | 17th Nov 1892 10:15 AM, 5th hour of shift |
| Year Born: | abt. 1839 |
| Colliery: | Langbaurgh (Whinstone) |
| Company: | Bradley Brothers |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Notes: | while sitting in the engine-house some teeth of a spur wheel broke, striking him on the head; he resumed work in about a fortnight, and died from compression of the brain on the 25th December |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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No. 3 on the list occurred at Langbarugh Whinstone Mine, belonging to Messrs. Bradley Brother, on November 17th, about 10.15 a.m., and it cause the death of Isaac Storrow, a miner, which took place on December 25th.
It appears, on the day the accident occurred, deceased came out of the mine to get a meal, and for that purpose went into the engine-house. During the time he was there some teeth of a spur wheel broke, and were thrown to the top of the engine-house, and a piece in falling hit deceased on the head, cutting it slightly. He went home at once and was off work for a fortnight ; he then worked a week, but was never at work after that and gradually sank and died on the day named. There was a proper place provided for the men to go into, but, it being very cold weather, I imagine the engine-house would be much warmer, and that is why the men went into it.
Men should not be allowed to go into engine-houses, unless their work takes them there, and the manager of this mine, on my making a complaint to him about it being allowed, undertook in future that it should not be permitted; and a notice to that effect has been put on the door of the engine-house.
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- 1892 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6986), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 12 Where to find this report
- 1892 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6986), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 34, Accident Number: 3 Where to find this report
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