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Frank Brown
A staple 11½ feet by 7 feet sectional area was being sunk upwards from the Hutton to the Main Coal seam, and had gone over 17 fathoms, passing through the Low Main seam at 10 fathoms; buntons in pairs, 6 feet apart vertically, were placed 5 feet apart horizontally across the short length of the staple with backing deals inside, formed a space which was filled with debris and carried forward as the sinking upwards proceeded, acted both as a brattice for ventilation and as a scaffold on which the men worked ; a vertical ladder attached to one of the sets of buntons afforded means of access to the staple ; two shots of carbonite had been fired by electricity 10 minutes before the accident, and deceased was climbing the ladder with the cable to connect it to another shot of carbonite when he fell, broke through a scaffold at the Low Main, where his marrow was, and fell further to the Hutton seam
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