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| Date: | 23rd August 1883 |
| Colliery: | Sunnybrow |
| Company: | Strakers and Love |
| Cause: | Crushed by tubs |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
| Category: | Deaths not comprised under The Acts |
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John Potts was riding on the front of a set being drawn up the incline by rope in Sunnybrow Colliery on 23rd August. The engine was stopped when something was found to be wrong with the set. Potts was found lying dead under some of the tubs ; it was thought he had fallen off, causing the derailment.
| Source: | Text kindly provided by Jim Grainger from his research into early newspapers (primarily the Durham Advertiser and Durham Chronicle). |
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 | Potts, John, aged 29, Waggon Rider, was knocked down and run over by a truck while shunting in the coke yard [fatality reported during the year but not classified as a reportable accident] |
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