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John Kinross
| Age: | 26 |
| Died: | 29th May 1894 |
| Accident: | 29th May 1894 9:50 AM, 4th hour of shift |
| Year Born: | abt. 1868 |
| Colliery: | North Biddick |
| Company: | Earl of Durham |
| Occupation: | Banksman |
| Notes: | Descending from the surface to the "hole" he stepped out of the cage too soon and fell down the shaft [Sunderland Daily Echo reports: accident - 30 May 1894 pg 3 col 5] |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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Number 29 on the list occurred at North Biddick Colliery, on the 29th of May last, about 9.50 o'clock a.m., causing the death of John Kinross, a banksman.
The cage had just come to bank, to the heapstead level, with a tub and tram in it and the latter was loaded with old timber, which it was necessary to take out at the ground level, 22 feet lower down. He took the tub out, and then got inside the cage, beside the timber tram, and told the winding engineman to take the cage to the ground level; this he proceeded to do; but it appears deceased either fainted and fell out, or attempted to get out of the cage before it stopped, and 6 feet above the ground level, and he fell to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 230 yards, and was killed.
This man had no business to get into the cage to go to the lower level; there were proper steps provided from the heapstead to the ground, and he could have sent the timber down in the cage, and then gone down these and walked to the shaft and got the tram out, and by not doing so he lost his life,
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| Pub. Date | Article (Newspaper) |
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| May 1894 | Fall Down A Pit Shaft At Biddick (Sunderland Times) |
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- 1894 Mines Inspectors Report (C 7667), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 18 Where to find this report
- 1894 Mines Inspectors Report (C 7667), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 39, Accident Number: 28 Where to find this report
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