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John Dunlavey
| Age: | 14 |
| Died: | 18th Jul 1902 |
| Accident: | 18th Jul 1902 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1888 |
| Colliery: | Whitburn |
| Company: | Harton Coal Co., Ltd. |
| Occupation: | Trapper |
| Notes: | as the deputy was leaving a hewer's place after timbering it up, he was asked by the hewer to provide another plank ; he gave a plank to deceased, who was stationed at a door some distance outbye and who had only worked eight days in the pit, and told him to follow a putter, who was going inbye to the hewer's place with two empty tubs drawn by a pony, and asked the putter to look after him ; the boy followed the putter, and when near the face stood to one side, at a somewhat narrow part of the road, to allow the full tub to be drawn out, when he was caught by it and crushed ; it was no part of deceased's duty to carry timber to the face, and the deputy was wrong in sending him [Sunderland Echo reports: accident - 18 Jul 1902 pg 3] |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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- 1902 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1590), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 42, Accident Number: 57 Where to find this report
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