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| Date: | 5th August 1883 |
| Colliery: | Longacres (Ironstone) |
| Company: | Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., Ltd. |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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No. 19 on the list occurred at Longacres Mine, and was caused by the premature explosion of a shot. The man who was killed, and experienced miner, was using a "patent;" or "German" fuze to light his shot, when it exploded. These fuzes are made of paper rolled round a little fine powder, and one end is sulphured for an inch or two, and this acts as a slow match. It is probable that the miner had not lit the fuze at the end he ought to have done, but that he had either torn part of the sulphured end of the fuze off, or had applied his candle to the middle part instead of the end. It was stated in evidence at the inquest that he had told another miner that he did this in cases where he had not far to got to get out of the way of the shot, and when he was killed he would only have had to go a few yards to get round a corner.
| 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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 | Peel, John (died: 05 Aug 1883) , aged 48, Miner, injuries by explosion of powder, supposed to have lit squib instead of match |
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