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Age:	15
Died:	13th Mar 1929
Accident:	13th Mar 1929
Year Born:	abt. 1914
Colliery:	Harraton
Company:
Occupation:	Shaft Lad
Notes:	crushed
Buried:	[not known]
Category:

At Harraton Colliery, Durham, during a "men riding" interval a shaft lad aged 14 years went into a creeper motor room adjacent to the shaft siding, and sat down on a concrete foundation pillar near a toothed wheel of the gearing. The motor attendant, who was unaware of deceased's position, instead of himself starting the motor, instructed another lad to switch on. When the motor started the deceased shaft lad was struck on the head by the gear wheel and instantly killed. A single bar fence on one side of the machinery was found lying on the floor, but there was no evidence to show how it was displaced. Had it been in position, however, it would not have prevented the accident as deceased could have got under it or around it because the fence did not extend far enough to prevent free access to the machinery.

In my report for last year I called attention to the aims and requirements of fences for machinery and I would again direct the attention of colliery managers and engineers to those remarks. If they were followed carefully and carried out intelligently accidents of the above type would be eliminated.

By the direction of your predecessor proceedings were instituted against the manager under Section 55 of the Coal Mines Act, 1911, and against the engineer under Section 66 (d). Convictions were recorded particulars of which are given in Appendix 1.

• 1929 Mines Inspectors Report

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