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Alfred Waldran
| Age: | 39 |
| Died: | 5th Jun 1896 |
| Accident: | 4th Jun 1896 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1857 |
| Colliery: | Eston (Ironstone) |
| Company: | Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., Ltd. |
| Occupation: | Deputy |
| Notes: | While he and another deputy were carrying a prop into a place it caught and displaced one which was set and in falling it injured him severely about the back. Died on the 5th instant |
| Buried: | [not known] |
| Category: | Miscellaneous Underground Accidents :: Sundries |
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No. 173 on the list occurred at Eston Mines, belonging to Messrs. Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co., Limited, on June 4th, causing the death of a deputy.
The deceased and two other men were carrying a prop, 17 feet in length, into a working place to set it, when the end of it caught one of the props, which was already set, and knocked it out, and it in falling caught this deputy, and so severely injured him that he died the next day.
The prop, which was displaced, must have been hit by a piece of stone from a shot and thus loosened. The deputy said he had examined all the props in the place. when he made his first examination in the morning of the day on which the accident occurred, and they were all then perfectly tight, so that it must have been hit within four hours of the time when it fell and caught this man.
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- 1896 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8450), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 15 Where to find this report
- 1896 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8450), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 26, Accident Number: 252 Where to find this report
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