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Date:	21st October 1889
Colliery:	Shildon Lodge
Company:	Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., Ltd.
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1
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No. 68 on the list. — This accident occurred in a drift, along which steam-pipes are carried from the boilers at the surface to the pumping engine underground.

This drift is divided by a brick wall, the steam-pipes being on one side of it, and in this partition are several doors. The place being very hot, deceased and five others who had been sent to mend the bad joints in the steam-pipes, put a stopping in between two of the doors on the opposite side of the partition to which the pipes were on, to take the air a shorter route into the drift. They worked in turns for a short time, and then came back through the first door to where it was cool. One man had gone and worked a short time and returned, and then deceased went, but not returning, after the elapse of 10 or 15 minutes the other men became alarmed, and went through the door to look for him, but could see no light. They, however, after searching some time found him through the second door on the other side of the stopping, among the still air, quite dead. It would appear that deceased in coming back had missed the first door, through which he should have come, and gone through the second into the still air, where he had been overcome by the heat.

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

	McNaughton, William, aged 26, Labourer, was scalded to death while engaged in repairing pipes in an underground steam drift
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