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Robert Elliott
| Age: | 57 |
| Died: | 18th Nov 1896 |
| Accident: | 18th Nov 1896 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1839 |
| Colliery: | Eston (Ironstone) |
| Company: | Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., Ltd. |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Notes: | He had fired a shot which made a holing into another place, and without making an examination, entered the place and was looking through the hole when a large piece of stone fell from the face and killed him instantly |
| Buried: | [not known] |
| Category: | Falls in the Mine :: Falls of Side |
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No. 525 on the list occurred at Eaton Mines, belonging to Bolckow, Vaughan, & Co., Limited, on November 18th, causing the death of a miner.
The place this man was working in had just holed into another, and there was an opening of about 4 feet square between them. A shot was fired, and a piece of stone fell near this opening, and on returning deceased removed this and was looking through the hole when a piece of stone fell off the face on to him with fatal results.
He should have been more careful in his examination of the place after firing a shot; it is most likely if he had been he would have found that the stone, which afterwards fell and killed him, was unsafe, and could have removed it.
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- 1896 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8450), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 10 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: 23, Accident Number: 525 Where to find this report
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