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Age:	52
Died:	28th Nov 1924
Accident:	5th Nov 1924 4.30 p.m., 7th hour of shift
Year Born:	abt. 1872
Colliery:	Benwell, Charlotte
Company:	William Cochran Carr, Ltd.
Occupation:	Back Overman
Notes:	fell into sump
Buried:	[not known]
Category:	Shaft Accidents :: Falling from part-way down

An unusual accident caused by excess of zeal and want of caution on the part of an official occurred at Benwell Colliery, Northumberland. The descending cage was fouled by a tub of clay, which, in some way unknown, lifted the "sneck" and fell out of the cage. A shaftman was lowered to the cage on a crab rope, and finding he required a saw, the rope was lowered to the shaft bottom, and he asked the onsetter to attach and send up a saw. Deceased, who was in the shaft bottom, elected to take the saw up by placing a 9 inch pin through the eye of the crab rope capel and standing on the protruding ends of the pin. He had no safety belt on, and was strongly advised by the onsetter not to run the risk. The advice was ignored, and while ascending, deceased struck a head shield 24 feet above the shaft bottom, causing him to fall off the pin on to the sump boards 32 feet below. He sustained injuries from which he died 23 days later.

• 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: 15
• 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: 67, Accident Number: 96

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