| Date: | 16th September 1857 |
| Colliery: | Hebburn |
| Company: | |
| Cause: | Fell down shaft |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
| Category: | |
One of the engine-wrights was killed in Hebburn engine shaft; he had gone down to repair one of the spears, and in preparing to ascend with the loop, his head had got on the wrong side of one of the cross beams with which the shaft is crowded, where he was so crushed that he died. A person was stationed in the shaft above him to communicate with the people at bank and the driver of the jack-horse, by means of a signal; it was. thus discovered that the rope was fast, upon which one of the persons slid down the rope, and discovered his position, but he was quite dead.
| Source: | 1857 Mines Inspectors Report |
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