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| Date: | 2nd December 1891 |
| Colliery: | Trimdon Grange |
| Company: | Walter Scott, Ltd. |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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No. 58 on the list occurred at Trimdon Grange Colliery, belonging to Mr. Walter Scott, on the 2nd of December, about 11.30 p.m., causing the death of James Townsend, a coal hewer.
This accident happened when the men were being sent to bank. About 40 were at the pit bottom, and when the cage came down the commenced to push, and deceased slipped on the flat sheets, and his leg got into the cage way, being so severely injured that he died on the day following.
This is a class of accident I am surprised does not happen more frequently. Disorderly conduct and crushing at the pit bottom is most dangerous, because a man near the shaft has no chance of saving himself from being carried under the cage. The onsetters should have control of the men, and they (the men) should also enter the cage as directed by them. I hope this accident will be a lesson, and that there will be less crushing and overcrowding in the future. In this case the onsetter does not seem to have any control over the men, and, on my making a complaint to the manager, he promised to appoint a more qualified man.
| Source: | 1891 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6625), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 11 Where to find this report |
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 | Townsend, James (died: 03 Dec 1891) , aged 40, Hewer, while some unruly crushing was going on at the pit bottom he was pushed under the cage |
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