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George Smith
| Age: | 61 |
| Died: | 13th Nov 1894 |
| Accident: | 13th Nov 1894 12:05 AM, 7th hour of shift |
| Year Born: | abt. 1833 |
| Colliery: | Binchester |
| Company: | Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., Ltd. |
| Occupation: | Stoneman |
| Notes: | Fall of stone from between two balks after having fired a shot in the bottom, the shot appears to have either blown out or undermined some timber |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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Number 66 on the list occurred at Binchester Colliery, on the 13th of November, about 12.5 o'clock a.m., causing the death of George Smith, a stone man.
He, along with another stone man, was engaged shooting bottom up, in the working places, in order to make height for the waggons and ponies to travel in, and the timber had evidently been undermined by one of the shots in the bottom, and instead of resetting it, deceased had. carelessly thrown it to one side and commenced to clear away the debris, without first securing the roof, when a fall took place and caused his death.
He was usually a careless man about timbering, and had on a previous occasion been suspended from his employment in consequence.
Such accidents as these should never happen. They occur through sheer carelessness.
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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: 66 Where to find this report
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