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Date:	6th February 1865
Colliery:	Thistleflat
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Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1
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He had gone to clean the hole under the bottom of the apparatus tub way when the tubs were in motion. While standing in the hole, the chain broke and a tub came back on him crushing him so severely that he died immediately after being taken home. His son was the first to get to him and from the excitement he became so convulsed and cramped that for some hours his life was in danger. At the inquest held on the 8th, the keeker, Thomas Farry, was severely censured by the jury for not seeing that deceased was out of the hole before he ordered the brakesman to start the engine. As the jury had only brought in a verdict of accidental death, the Coroner had no option other than to throw aside this comment as it would have meant a charge of manslaughter against Farry

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Text kindly provided by Jim Grainger from his research into early newspapers (primarily the Durham Advertiser and Durham Chronicle).

	Ebden, William, Labourer on screens, crushed by a tub
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