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Date:	5th September 1871
Colliery:	Eppleton
Company:	Hetton Coal Co.
Cause:	Falling from Part Way Down
Lives Lost:	1
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Falling from Part Way Down.

No. 54 accident. This was also in a sinking shaft. Two cradles were in use ; one on which two men were employed a little higher up the shaft than the other, on which were other men ; some skylarking of a very dirty description had been going on. By-and-bye one of the men from the lower cradle was being drawn to the surface, and immediately on passing the upper cradle poured some water on the two men, and one of them trying to escape the water slipped and fell to the bottom.

Sinkers are generally strong healthy young fellows, and usually fond of practical jokes. It is important that charge-men should check as much as possible any tendency to this kind of thing in such dangerous positions.

Source:

1871 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 653), South Durham, Westmoreland, and Cleveland District by James Willis, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 26 Where to find this report

	Robinson, John, aged 25, Sinker, skylarking with others, fell off a cradle in the sinking pit
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