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Date:	19th August 1891
Colliery:	Eston (Ironstone)
Company:	Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., Ltd.
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1
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No. 12 on the list occurred at Eston Mines, belonging to Messrs. Bolckow, Vaughan, and Company, Limited, on the 19th August, about 9.30 a.m., causing the death of George Wilkinson, a deputy. Deceased, along with another deputy, was cutting holes for a baulk when a piece of stone fell from a back without warning, and so severely injured Wilkinson that he died on the same day. The following is the evidence of the man working along with him. "I was working with deceased, and we were both on the scaffold together, he was cutting one hole for the baulk, and I was preparing the other. Deceased sounded the stone after getting on to the scaffold and said it was very bad and might come down any time, but he did not think it was necessary to put a prop in to hold it up ; it fell and knocked deceased off the plank, and I also fell off but was not hurt. I looked about and saw deceased under the stone. If we had put a prop in it would have prevented the stone falling, but we did not think it would fall before the baulk was pot in."

This is a case of mistaken judgement or of neglect. It would not have taken long to put a prop in to keep themselves safe, and it is a pity that this was not done.

Source:

1891 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6625), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 13 Where to find this report

	Wilkinson, George, aged 46, Deputy, standing on a scaffold preparing to put in a balk, a fall of stone took place which knocked him down, injuring him so severely that he died shortly after
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