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Age:	31
Died:	14th Apr 1911
Accident:	14th Apr 1911
Year Born:	abt. 1880
Colliery:	Houghton
Company:	Lambton and Hetton Collieries Ltd.
Occupation:	Blacksmith
Notes:	[Sunderland Echo reports: accident - 15 Apr 1911 pg 3 col 5; inquest - 18 Apr 1911 pg 3 col 2]
Buried:	[not known]
Category:	Shaft Accidents :: Falling from part way down

With others he was engaged in renewing rail guides in a shaft; the rails were in 18 feet lengths and the shaft buntons were 6 feet apart; the rails were held in position by chairs bolted to the buntons; in this case the top chair where the joint was had been taken off, then the next two chairs; a pair of blocks suspended from a bunton had been attached to the rail ready to lift it out of the bottom chair; as soon as the blocks were moved, the top 6 feet of the rail fell away, struck Edmundson on the head and knocked him off the cage; there had been a joint at that point unnoticed by anybody; he fell a distance of 100 feet and his spine was fractured; he died in Sunderland Infirmary the same day

• 1911 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 6237) Where to find this report
• 1911 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 6237), Durham District (No. 3) by A. D. Nicholson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 38, Accident Number: 4 Where to find this report

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