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Thomas Oxley
| Age: | 31 |
| Died: | 9th Jan 1894 |
| Accident: | 9th Sep 1893 1:30 PM, 3rd hour of shift |
| Year Born: | abt. 1863 |
| Colliery: | Etherley |
| Company: | Henry Stobart and Co. |
| Occupation: | Hewer |
| Notes: | Died to day from injuries received to spine and ribs, caused by a fall of coal on 9th September 1893. |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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Number 3 on the list occurred at Etherley Colliery, about 1.30 o'clock p.m. on the 9th of September 1893, causing the death, which took place on the 9th of January last, of Thomas Oxley, a coal hewer.
This man was injured by a stone, measuring 4 feet 6 inches long x 4 feet 6 inches wide x 4 inches thick, falling upon him in his working place.
It appears he was working in what is known as the "back" or second shift, and that the deputy belonging to the previous shift had examined the place, in which the accident afterwards occurred, at 8.30 a.m.; the accident occurred at 1.30 p.m., and no official appears to have been in the place between these times, or for a period of five hours.
At the inquest the jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and further stated that they considered five hours too long a period for a place to go without being inspected by some official, and recommended that deputies in future make more frequent visits to the working places. With this view of the case I cordially agree, I think five hours is too long a time for a working place to be left without an inspection being made by an official, but the Act only requires that at least one inspection shall be made during the shift by deputies.
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- 1894 Mines Inspectors Report (C 7667), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 12 Where to find this report
- 1894 Mines Inspectors Report (C 7667), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 36, Accident Number: 3 Where to find this report
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