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John Lowes
| Age: | 50 |
| Died: | 26th Oct 1894 |
| Accident: | 26th Oct 1894 8:30 AM, 5th hour of shift |
| Year Born: | abt. 1844 |
| Colliery: | Edmondsley |
| Company: | Edmondsley Coal Co. |
| Occupation: | Hewer |
| Notes: | Fall of top coal which he had neglected to sprag |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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Number 64 on the list occurred at Edmondsley Colliery, on the 26th of October last, about 8.30 o'clock a.m., causing the death of Thomas Lowes, a coal hewer.
Deceased was working in a place, loose at one side, in the main coal seam. This seam has two portions of coal divided by a stone band in about the middle of it; and in the working the bottom coal is first kirved out, and then the band is taken down, and the top coal is got by a shot if necessary.
In this particular case there was a breaker in the middle of the place, running from the top to the bottom, and, at an angle, into the goaf, at the left-hand side, and this left a triangular piece of coal, on the loose side, without any support at all. He commenced and kirved the bottom coal out, and while he was filling this coal into the tub, the top portion of the triangular piece of coal, fell upon him, when he was in a stooping position, and killed him.
He had no sprags set, and I am not sure, if he had had one, that it would have prevented this piece of coal falling, but it would have given him some warning and enabled him to get out of the way. He should, I think, have taken this piece of coal down, as he kirved the bottom portion out and took the band down.
It is a seam which must be worked with sprags, and it has been impressed upon both the officials and workmen in it, time after time, how necessary it is, if accidents are to be prevented, that sprags should always be set under the top coal.
Deceased's neglect to either sprag the coal or take it down cost him his life, and I hope the other men will, in future, be most careful in such circumstances.
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- 1894 Mines Inspectors Report (C 7667), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 15 Where to find this report
- 1894 Mines Inspectors Report (C 7667), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 44, Accident Number: 64 Where to find this report
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