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| Date: | 20th May 1858 |
| Colliery: | Seaton |
| Company: | N. Wood and Partners |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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The accident No. 36 in the list, caused the death of a man by the overcrowding of the workmen to get into a cage at the bottom of the pit after finishing their day's work, he being pushed into the cage hole by the crowd; and although he only fell some four or five feet, he appears to have died from the effects of the bruises he received in the fall.
No. 36 accident is one of a character which would perhaps be best prevented by having a chain or other fence to hinder workmen from crushing and crowding each other in their eagerness to obtain the earliest turn to ascend a pit; at any rate this provision appears to have had a good effect at the Seaton Pit, where it has been adopted since the occurrence of the accident.
| Source: | 1858 Mines Inspectors Report |
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 | Williamson, John, aged 44, Hewer, accidentally pushed by crowd into cage hole |
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