John Kelsey
| Age: | 43 |
| Died: | 3rd Apr 1903 |
| Accident: | 3rd Apr 1903 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1860 |
| Colliery: | Boldon |
| Company: | Harton Coal Co., Ltd. |
| Occupation: | Shaftman |
| Notes: | fell from scoffold |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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Deceased was examining the furnace shaft at the Maudlin seam. The shaft is sunk to the Hutton seam 24 fathoms further, but the cages only run to the Maudlin. He climbed down to a scaffold formed of four loose planks 9 feet long by 9 inches by 3 inches, and supported on beams at the ends and centre a few feet below the Maudlin, to examine the keps, and fell from there to the Hutton seam. Part of one of the planks which formed the scaffold fell with him. How he came to fall could not be ascertained. Probably some soot and salt (formed by the evaporation of brackish water) had fallen from the side of the shaft and broken the plank before he stepped on to it. The Local Inspectors reported that, in their opinion, he "accidentally fell." The jury made a recommendation as to not employing a deaf waiter-on, and thought a shaft man should not work alone.
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- 1903 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2119), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 36, Accident Number: 25 Where to find this report
- 1903 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2119), Page: 36, Accident Number: 25 Where to find this report
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