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Date:	23rd June 1892
Colliery:	Murton
Company:	South Hetton Coal Co., Ltd.
Cause:	Fall of coal
Lives Lost:	1
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No. 13 on the list occurred at Murton Colliery, belonging to the South Hetton Coal Company, Limited, on the 23rd of June, about 9.30 p.m., causing the death of Thomas Charlton, a coal hewer.

Deceased and another man were working in a broken jud in the main coal seam, and the latter, in his evidence at the inquest, said :— "We had worked in under the top coal, and I had nicked the fast side in ; it was loose on the other side. We let it hang so as to make it give a little. I told deceased not to go under it was the coal had given, and he had better take it down ; but he replied that he would fill the tub first, and just as he was going to hew a few coals to fill the tub with, the this top coal fell and killed him on the spot. We are not allowed to leave coal hanging like this ; if the officials see it, they stay till it is hewed down."

This is an accident that should never have occurred. It would have been a very easy thing to take the coal down, and by not doing so, deceased became the victim of his own recklessness. I cannot conceive how any man can be so foolhardy as to go under coal which, as was the case in this instance, has not the slightest support.

Source:

1892 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6986), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 8 Where to find this report

	Charlton, Thomas, aged 22, Hewer, fall of top coal ; he had worked the fast sides, let it loose, and neglected to set props before going to work under it
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