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Robert Mathison Snowden
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| Died: | 15th Dec 1934 |
| Accident: | 15th Dec 1934 |
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| Colliery: | Marsden |
| Company: | Harton Coal Co., Ltd |
| Occupation: | Drawer |
| Notes: | killed by a fall of stone |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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A type of accident due to a faulty method of support was instanced by a fatality which occurred at Whitburn Colliery, Durham. A timber drawer was walking along a part of a longwall conveyor face where the supports had not been withdrawn, when a stone 15 feet long in the direction of the face, fell in the three feet space between the ends of the last set row of planks and the solid coal face. Following the accident the method of support was amended by the fillers notching the planks into the solid coal face and propping them at both ends.
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- 1934 Mines Inspectors Report
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| Researcher | Date | Interest | |
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| peter mathison | 10 Jul 2011 |
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