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Date:	4th February 1883
Colliery:	Trimdon Grange
Company:	Walter Scott
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1
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No. 8 on the coal mines list occurred in the shaft at Trimdon Grange Colliery ; while James Brown, an assistant shaft-man, and three others were clearing some old timber out of the shaft on Sunday the 4th February, they hung a stringing plank, 15 feet long, on to the jack engine rope to have it raised to bank ; Brown got on a bunton and fastened the rope to the plank ; about 12 feet above him was a scaffold, on which were two of the other men prepared to guide the plank past the scaffold ; the end of the plank caught the scaffold however, and loosened part of it, which fell on to Brown and knocked him down the shaft ; it was supposed that he himself had been trying to guide the plank and had caused it to strike the bunton. He had been asked to come off the bunton before the engine was started, but he said he was all right where he was.

Source:

1883 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4078), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 215 Where to find this report

	Brown, James, aged 32, Shaftman, fell from main coal to low main, a distance of 44 yards
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