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| Date: | 4th November 1889 |
| Colliery: | Elemore |
| Company: | Hetton Coal Co., Ltd. |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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No. 74 on the list. — Deceased had been clearing small coal away in the spout to the apparatus hole in connexion with the screens, and instead of doing so by taking hold of a plank with his hands and working the coal down with his feet and closing the slides or shutters at the screens to prevent a rush of small coal, he had evidently got into the box and been lying on his back to put his feet against the coals to give them a start when they came away and carried him into the box where he was suffocated. The accident was only discovered by the coals sticking in the box, and when a man went into the apparatus hole he found deceased's body stopping the slide, which was worked by the tub.
| Source: | 1889 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6015), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 11 Where to find this report |
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 | Turnbull, John T., aged 16, Screener, while attending to small coal box he is supposed to have fallen in and been suffocated |
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