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Age:	38
Died:	10th Jun 1924
Accident:	10th Jun 1924 10.0 p.m., 1st hour of shift
Year Born:	abt. 1886
Colliery:	Clifton
Company:	Allerdale Coal Co., Ltd.
Occupation:	Deputy
Notes:	died from accidental coal-gas poisoning; address: Botany Street, Workington
Buried:	[not known]
Category:	Miscellaneous Underground :: Suffocated by Natural Causes

Suffocation by Natural Gases.

Another case occurred at Clifton Colliery, Cumberland, and a deputy lost his life as a result of taking a fairly obvious risk. He was attempting to inspect a rise stone drift in which the ventilation had been partially interrupted during the Whitsuntide week end owing to the stopping of an auxiliary fan.

For some unknown reason, he left his flame safety lamp outbye, and walked into an accumulation of firedamp carrying his electric lamp, and was overcome near the face of the drift.

As he failed to return to the meeting station, a search was made, and he was recovered fully two hours later, when artificial respiration and the administration of oxygen failed to revive him.

It is important to remember that the Coal Mines Act requires an adequate amount of ventilation to be constantly produced in every mine, and the stoppage of the fan during the week end was a contravention of the Act in this case.

• 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: 25
• 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: 68, Accident Number: 110

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