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| Date: | 11th December 1891 |
| Colliery: | Page Bank |
| Company: | Bell Brothers, Ltd. |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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No. 61 on the list occurred at Page Bank Colliery, belonging to Messrs. Bell Brothers, Limited, on the 11th of December, about 9.30 a.m., causing the death of James Gardiner, a coal hewer.
He had just commenced to take the top portion of the seam down, after kirving all the bottom coal out in a place which he had holed. This top coal was about 2 ft. thick and 4 ft. long, when the whole of it fell away, killing him on the spot. He had only one chock prop where he should have had two or three to keep himself safe.
The place was going headways, and would thus break off by the cleaverage much more easily than it would have done had it been going "bordways." The weight of the coal which fell would be about two tons.
This is another case where the neglect to put chocks in has cost a man his life, and further strengthens my remarks on a similar accident, number 22 on the list, which occurred at Brandon Colliery.
| Source: | 1891 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6625), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 12 Where to find this report |
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 | Gardner, James, aged 20, Hewer, fall of top coal which he had cut through without having first spragged it |
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