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Joseph Davison
| Age: | 34 |
| Died: | 27th Mar 1895 |
| Accident: | 27th Mar 1895 3:30 PM, 6th hour of shift |
| Year Born: | abt. 1861 |
| Colliery: | Woodifield |
| Company: | Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., Ltd. |
| Occupation: | Hewer |
| Notes: | returned to what he supposed to be a missed shot, when it exploded and killed him |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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Number 17 on the list occurred at Woodifield Colliery, on he 27th March, at about 3.30 p.m., causing the death of Joseph Davison, a coal hewer.
The deceased man had completed his shift, and before going home he was firing a shot in the bottom stone. No one was close to him at the time, and what happened is therefore not known, but it is supposed that he had either, in lighting up the shot, lighted the squib instead of the touch, or he had lighted the shot and gone back to a safe distance, and he had thought it had missed fire, returned to the shot, and it exploded just as he got up to it. He was found close to the shot, and it is highly probable that one of these suppositions is the correct solution of how the accident was caused.
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- 1895 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8074), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 13 Where to find this report
- 1895 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8074), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 25, Accident Number: 17 Where to find this report
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