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James Henry Telford
| Age: | 33 |
| Died: | 13th Apr 1897 |
| Accident: | 12th Apr 1897 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1864 |
| Colliery: | Framwellgate |
| Company: | Framwellgate Coal and Coke Co., Ltd. |
| Occupation: | Deputy |
| Notes: | He was firing a shot in the longwall, and there was a tub standing over the plate ends at the gateway, and after lighting the shot he went past this tub and down the gateway. The shot exploded, and some of the coal knocked a prop out, which hit the tub, and it ran amain and caught deceased, causing such severe injuries that he died the following day |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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No. 169 on the list occurred at Framwellgate Colliery, belonging to Messrs. the Framwellgate Coal and Coke Co., Ltd., on April 12th, causing the death of a deputy.
This case was of an unusual character and a pure accident. The main coal seam which is about 4 feet in thickness was kirved in at the bottom, a distance of 3 ft. 2 ins. to 3 ft. 6 ins., and 9 yards in length in a long wall face. The gradient near the face was about 7 inches per yard, and on an average in the roadway about 4 inches per yard. The gateway was up 19 yards and a prop and plank was set just in front of the roadway, and an empty was standing with the front wheels over the rail or plate ends. A shot composed of ½ lb. of powder was put in the coal at the fast side, on the right hand side of the gateway, and was expected to blow down about two yards of coal leaving the rest to be wedged, but owing to a slip running along the place the shot brought down about ten tons of coal the whole length of the kirving, and it, in falling, struck the prop and this knocked the tub on to the rails, and it ran amain down the gateway and caught the deceased, who with a hewer had tried to run out on to the headways in front of it, and killed him.
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- 1897 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8819), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 30 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: 43, Accident Number: 169 Where to find this report
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