Francis Henry Summerill
| Age: | 50 |
| Died: | 13th Jan 1936 |
| Accident: | 2nd Jan 1936 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1886 |
| Colliery: | Elemore |
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| Occupation: | Cutter |
| Notes: | struck by prop, died from injuries received |
| Buried: | Hetton-le-Hole Cemetery |
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A coal-cutter operator was killed at Elemore Colliery, Durham. He was travelling along a longwall machine-cut face in a seam 3 ft. 9 in. thick, when he was struck in the chest by a prop which was withdrawn from beneath the face end of a pair of gears by the haulage rope of a coal-cutting machine which was undercutting the coal at the time. He continued at work for a short time but did not complete his shift. On reaching the surface he bathed and before walking home had a slight red mark on his left side treated with iodine and dressed. He died in hospital 12 days later from bronchial pneumonia which, according to the medical evidence, may have been set up by the blow. The machine was cutting round a bend on the face and the haulage rope had been placed on the face side of the supports to keep the machine close to the coal. The accident would probably have been avoided if stay props had been set at intervals on the face to keep the haulage rope from the face supports.
Hetton-le-Hole — Cemetery
Location: OS Map 88, Grid Ref NZ351480
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- 1936 Mines Inspectors Report
- Headstone(s) in Hetton-le-Hole Cemetery
- Tombstone photograph (T-01053-01-0002) © Kev Duncan
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