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| Date: | 28th August 1875 |
| Colliery: | Laxey (Metalliferous) |
| Company: | Great Laxey Mining Co. |
| Cause: | Shot Firing Accident |
| Lives Lost: | 2 |
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Explosions of Gunpowder.
The fourth accident from this cause happened at the Great Laxey Mine, in the Isle of Man. It resulted in two deaths. Two men working in the 170 fathom level were charging a hole which they had bored, when the powder exploded with such violence as to cause the death of both. The evidence given at the inquest showed that these men used only the iron stemmer in stemming the charge. The witnesses, all miners working close by at the time, were evidently anxious to blame the tin-plate charger with which the charge was inserted, or rather jerked, into the hole ; but I believe I am correct in asserting that the disaster occurred through the disregard of that section of the Act which prohibits the use of an iron stemmer for the first part of the stemming, and which had been duly made known to the men and provided for by the agents.
| Source: | 1875 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1499), Anglesey, Brecon, Cardigan, etc. District by T. Fanning Evans, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 375 Where to find this report |
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 | Kelly, John, aged 36, Miner, the men were charging or stemming a hole into which they had put a considerable quantity of powder; they put in more than usual to fill a loch or natural cavity which the borer had entered and by some means unexplained the powder exploded killing them both; they appeared to have been using an iron stemmer |
| | Kelly, Robert, aged 58, Miner, the men were charging or stemming a hole into which they had put a considerable quantity of powder; they put in more than usual to fill a loch or natural cavity which the borer had entered and by some means unexplained the powder exploded killing them both; they appeared to have been using an iron stemmer |
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