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| Date: | 26th April 1883 |
| Colliery: | Longacres (Ironstone) |
| Company: | Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., Ltd. |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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No. 11 on the list occurred at Longacres Mine, where John Pennock was killed by a premature explosion of powder while engaged in putting the hay wadding on to the powder he had placed into the hole, which was 3 feet 6 inches deep ; it would appear that in drilling the hole deceased had met with a hard fossil "belemnite" which slightly turned the direction of the hole and left a small "conch" on, and while pushing the hay wad in with a copper rammer, the charge exploded killing him on the spot. It was intimated that lucifer matches were often found among the hay used by the miners for tamping, and I had the remainder of the hay brought out and carefully examined, when I found two matches that had not been ignited, but whether such a match had got into the hole among the hay and become ignited by the friction, or that a spark had been emitted by the rammer striking against the fossil, if difficult to say.
| Source: | 1883 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4078), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 216 Where to find this report |
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 | Pennock, John, aged 43, Miner, explosion of powder while engaged putting the hay wad into a hole just charged with loose powder |
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