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James Burney
| Age: | 42 |
| Died: | 24th Feb 1924 |
| Accident: | 24th Feb 1924 9.45 a.m., 4th hour of shift |
| Year Born: | abt. 1882 |
| Colliery: | Horden |
| Company: | Horden Collieries Ltd. |
| Occupation: | Washery Attendant |
| Notes: | Standing on a concrete platform, deceased was tightening the nut of a half-inch bolt at the base of a bracket carrying a side roller of a canvas belt used for conveying the small coal from the screens to the washery, when the bolt fractured, causing him to overbalance and fall to the ground 16 ft. below. He struck a truck standing in the siding and fractured his spine. He died an hour later |
| Buried: | [not known] |
| Category: | On Surface :: Miscellaneous |
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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: 77, Accident Number: 192
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