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Date:	4th July 1864
Colliery:	Stanley
Company:	Joseph Pease and Partners
Cause:	Fell from top of shaft
Lives Lost:	1
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At the Stanley pit, also belonging to Messrs. Joseph Pease & Co., on the 4th July, John Thompson, a joiner at Stanley Colliery, while assisting his son, the engineer of the colliery, in removing a water tub from a cage at the top of the shaft, by some mischance fell down the shaft and was killed.

He had probably been dazzled by the light of the lamps, and had not observed that he was stepping into the shaft, which necessarily had the guards removed for the purpose of taking the water tub out of the cage at the time of the accident.

Source:

1864 Mines Inspectors Report, Southern District by John J. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 20

	Thompson, John, aged 69, Joiner, fell from top of shaft
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