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Joseph William Maddison
| Age: | 45 |
| Died: | 8th Dec 1924 |
| Accident: | 8th Dec 1924 2.30 p.m., 6th hour of shift |
| Year Born: | abt. 1879 |
| Colliery: | High Burn Quarry |
| Company: | Norman R. Brown |
| Occupation: | Foreman |
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| Buried: | [not known] |
| Category: | Inside the Quarries :: Miscellaneous |
A foreman quarryman was killed at High Burn Quarry, Durham. Deceased was lowering a block of sandstone weighing 6 tons 14 cwts., by a 7-ton steam derrick crane, when the strap connecting one of the wooden guy legs to the top of the king post fractured, and he fell with the crane to the bottom of the quarry, a distance of 80 feet. He died from his injuries later in the day.
- 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: 55
- 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: 78, Accident Number: 201
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