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Robert Young
| Age: | 36 |
| Died: | 24th Oct 1894 |
| Accident: | 24th Oct 1894 9:00 AM, 2nd hour of shift |
| Year Born: | abt. 1858 |
| Colliery: | Brownrigg |
| Company: | J. Armstrong |
| Occupation: | Hewer |
| Notes: | Suffocated by stythe. The deceased, it would seem, had gone into the place where he met his death either out of curiosity or to get something. He had been working there on the previous day with the owner of the mine, but, owing to the foul air, he had been forbidden to go in by the owner [Inspection made] |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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One death was due to this cause [Suffocation by Gases], and was the result of disobedience on the part of the deceased, who worked at a small land sale pit near Otterburn, Northumberland. Five or six men only were employed at this Brownrigg Colliery, and the owner, Joseph Armstrong, himself worked down the pit. He and the deceased, Robert Young, had been engaged in driving a small air road towards another pit, but on the morning of the accident Armstrong found on entering the place that black-damp or stythe was present, and he accordingly gave the deceased some other work to do. The air road referred to, it should be stated, was about 9 feet up the shaft from the pit bottom, and on the opposite side to the mouthing, and to get to it one had to climb up from the top of the cage, so that it was impossible to enter it inadvertently. For some reason or other the people in the neighbourhood were under the impression that the death was due to suicide, as the deceased, it was stated, had been depressed for some time past in consequence of a slight accident he had received; but his fellow workmen informed me that he was in excellent spirits that morning. He was missed from his work, however, and on a search being made, his dead body was found in the air-way. It was of course impossible to say definitely how he came by his death, but from an inspection of the place, and taking into consideration all the surrounding circumstances, I am decidedly of opinion that the facts were opposed to the theory of suicide, to which cause the jury attributed his death. On what grounds they based their verdict I do not know, as the inquiry was closed before 1 had an opportunity of being present; but in the absence of anything more definite than gossip and surmise, for of direct evidence there was none, it certainly seems strange that any other verdict than an open one should have been returned.
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- 1894 Mines Inspectors Report (C 7667), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. L. Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 13 Where to find this report
- 1894 Mines Inspectors Report (C 7667), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. L. Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 48, Accident Number: 60 Where to find this report
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