John Cockbain
| Age: | 68 |
| Died: | 10th Sep 1907 |
| Accident: | 10th Sep 1907 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1839 |
| Colliery: | Whitehaven |
| Company: | Whitehaven Colliery Co. |
| Occupation: | Shiftman |
| Notes: | killed by a fall of stone |
| Buried: | [not known] |
| Category: | |
Deceased was employed cleaning up coal and rubbish that had collected on the inner end of an endless rope haulage road in the West district of the Main band of the Ladysmith pit. He had hung his coat at the corner of a pillar of coal where a dilley road joined the engine plane and he came to it to get a drink out of his water bottle, when a mass of coal weighing about 24 cwts. fell off the corner of the pillar from the upper part of seam and crushed his head. The seam is 7 feet 4 inches thick and tender in the centre which wastes away leaving the upper part overhanging and this had fallen away for a length of 9 feet with a depth at the top of 2½ feet. It came off from a cleat. The roof was well supported by legs and crowns, iron girders and chocks, but the sides were not supported as it is usual to take down any coal considered dangerous. The master shifter had passed the place about 1¼ hours before the accident and had noticed no danger, deceased was then working 40 yards further in-bye. A bogie man, standing within 6 feet of deceased when the fall came away said it gave no warning, but as the endless rope was running at the time the noise it made may have prevented any slight warning being heard. The seam is subject to "bowks" or "thuds," and one may have been induced by falls of roof in an adjoining place where the roof had been working all the week.
Pub.
Date | Article (Newspaper) |
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| 12 Sep 1907 | Fatal Accident At Ladysmith Pit (Whitehaven News) |
| 12 Sep 1907 | Man Killed In Ladysmith Pit, Whitehaven (Cumberland Pacquet) |
- 1907 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4045), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 35, Accident Number: 72 Where to find this report
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