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William M. Cain
| Age: | 36 |
| Died: | 13th Jul 1894 |
| Accident: | 13th Jul 1894 11:30 am, 6th hour of shift |
| Year Born: | abt. 1858 |
| Colliery: | Foxdale (Lead Ore) |
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| Occupation: | Shaft sinker |
| Notes: | fall of a bucket (kibble), which became detached from the spring-hook (clevis) at the end of the winding rope |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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Accident No. 40. — This accident took place in a shaft which was being sunk at Foxdale Mine in the Isle of Man. A shaftman named Cain descended the shaft after blasting, in order to load the broken rock into a kibble and have it drawn up by a compressed air engine to a level 30 yards above him. During one of the upward journeys the kibble became detached from the hook, fell upon Cain, and killed him on the spot.
The hook and kibble are shown in Figure 3. When in use the hook was closed by a sliding bolt, kept in place by the projection a and the spring b. In order to open the hook the bolt is pulled back by the ring, as shown in the figure, so as to release the projecting stud a, and is then drawn up.
How the kibble happened to get loose and fall was never satisfactorily explained ; the hook would have drawn up the kibble safely, even if it had been open, for the shaft was so roomy that there was no fear of anything striking the sides.
I elicited from one of the witnesses at the inquest that he had known a water-barrel when lowered rapidly to become detached from a hook of this description on striking the water in a shaft, I therefore suggest as an explanation that on reaching the bottom of the shaft, where Cain was at work, the hook received a blow from the bow of the kibble which in some manner caused it to open, and that when Cain rang to wind up, the end of the hook c caught against the bow and lifted it a few fathoms till it slipped off.
The man who sent the kibble down was positive that the hook was properly closed by him. Even if the hook was opened by a blow from the bow, it is strange that Cain did not notice how perilously the kibble was held when ho started it on its upward journey. He was the only person in the shaft at the time, so the precise manner in which the casualty happened must always remain a matter of conjecture.
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- 1894 Mines Inspectors Report (C 7667), North Wales, &c., and Isle of Man District (No. 9) by C. Le Neve Foster, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 15, Accident Number: 40 Where to find this report
- 1894 Mines Inspectors Report (C 7667), North Wales, &c., and Isle of Man District (No. 9) by C. Le Neve Foster, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 8, Accident Number: 40 Where to find this report
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