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Joseph Tarn
| Age: | 48 |
| Died: | 2nd Apr 1897 |
| Accident: | 2nd Apr 1897 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1849 |
| Colliery: | Woodland |
| Company: | Woodland Collieries Co., Ltd. |
| Occupation: | Stoneman |
| Notes: | He had fired a powder shot in the bottom of a stone drift and waited about forty-five minutes, and then went back and commenced to loosen the stones with a pick, when another explosion occurred, injuring him so severely that he died shortly afterwards. The drift had been driven a short time before by means of gelatine dynamite, and it is supposed that a portion of a charge had not been detonated, and he struck it with his pick when loosening the stones |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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Only one fatal accident occurred from the use of explosives, the same number as last year. This was at the Woodland Colliery in Durham on May 2nd.
A stoneman who was driving a stone drift had fired a gunpowder shot, and when afterwards breaking up the stones with a pick an explosion occurred. Sometime previously the explosive used in this drift was gelatine dynamite, and it was thought that a portion of a charge of this had not gone off and that he struck it with his pick, or that a detonator had been lost and he had struck it, but no one knew of a detonator having been lost, and the first theory is probably the correct one.
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- 1897 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8819), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 16 Where to find this report
- 1897 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8819), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 42, Accident Number: 154 Where to find this report
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