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Richard Pape
| Age: | 31 |
| Died: | 19th Sep 1924 |
| Accident: | 19th Sep 1924 6.40 p.m., 3rd hour of shift |
| Year Born: | abt. 1893 |
| Colliery: | Hastings, Melton Sinking |
| Company: | Seaton Delaval Coal Co., Ltd. |
| Occupation: | Sinker |
| Notes: | fell down shaft |
| Buried: | [not known] |
| Category: | Shaft Accidents :: Miscellaneous |
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An accident, involving the death of three sinkers, occurred at the Melton Sinking Pit, Hastings Colliery, Northumberland. It was primarily caused by the fracture of a clutch on the drum shaft of the crab engine, but no definite evidence was available to account for the fracture. The shaft had been deepened a distance of about 45 fathoms, and the bottom length was being lined with masonry lumps from a walling scaffold resting on four draw bolts. The crab engine was a single cylinder geared engine on the surface, and, when the scaffold was in its lowest position in the shaft, there were four coils of rope on the drum. At the time of the accident there were 10 fathoms of water in the sump, and the scaffold, with the three men on, was three fathoms above the surface of the water. The crab rope was lowered and attached to the scaffold, which was lifted to allow the four bolts to be withdrawn, preparatory to raising, the engine taking the weight of the scaffold. The signal "raise" was given, and the scaffold had only moved a few inches when the clutch on the drum shaft broke. The engineman applied the flywheel brake before he realised the drum was free to revolve, and the rope end had parted from the drum before he put the drum brake on. The chargeman was drowned and the two sinkers died from shock as the result of being hit on the head by falling rope.
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- 1924 Mines Inspectors Report, Northern Division (No. 2) by T. Greenland Davies, H.M. Inspector of Mines [DMM Ref: L-01624 - Tom Bainbridge Collection], Page: 16
- 1924 Mines Inspectors Report, Northern Division (No. 2) by T. Greenland Davies, H.M. Inspector of Mines [DMM Ref: L-01624 - Tom Bainbridge Collection], Page: 68, Accident Number: 100
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