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George Charlton
| Age: | 22 |
| Died: | 25th Apr 1906 |
| Accident: | 25th Apr 1906 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1884 |
| Colliery: | Ashington |
| Company: | Ashington Coal Co., Ltd. |
| Occupation: | Stoneman |
| Notes: | killed by a fall of stone |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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Deceased and others were levelling out a 2 feet 7 inches dip hitch which crossed the face diagonally of longwall workings in the Yard seam 3 feet 1 inch thick in the 5th South district of the Bothal pit. A coal cutter and conveyor is used along the face, and after each cut the hitch had to be crossed at a new point. Deceased had assisted to adjust the road at several of the points previously crossed. At the time of the accident the bottom stone had been removed on the rise side end top stone taken down on the dip side of the hitch, and deceased was at the latter point cutting a hole, in the face to receive the end of a plank, when a stone, 6 feet 9 inches long along the hitch, and 3 feet 3 inches along the face, and 2 feet 9 inches thick, suddenly fell and crushed his head. The stone was relieved by the hitch leader and by a greasy jack parallel to it and by a jack over the coal. The assistant master shifter had jowled the stone 20 minutes before it fell and thought it safe. The Local Inspectors reported, "We consider that it was properly timbered and no blame attached to no one."
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- 1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 32, Accident Number: 23 Where to find this report
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