Description

A crusher attendant was killed at Clifton Colliery, Cumberland. Deceased was the person in charge of the coal crushing plant, which is driven by an electric motor. The driving belt is 12 ins. in width, and runs at the rate of 2,750 ft. per minute. The back of the driving pulley was not fenced, and he came in contact with the belt fasteners as they passed round the pulley at the unfenced part. He was found with his head and shoulders under the pulley in circumstances which suggest that he had been reaching under the pulley to get something which was lying in the central hollow of the bed plate, when the fasteners came in contact with his head, and fractured his skull. He died the same day. His tobacco pouch was found under the pulley just beyond his outstretched hand. The two end fence bars had been removed, but there was no evidence to show who had removed them.

Sources

• 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: 29
• 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: 75, Accident Number: 175

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