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Date:	29th October 1896
Colliery:	Shap
Company:	Shap Granite and Patent Concreate Co., Ltd.
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1
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The other case occurred at Shap Granite Quarry, belonging to the Shap Granite and Patent Concrete Company, Limited, on October 29th, and caused the death of a quarryman.

Deceased was engaged in charging a hole with dynamite and was using a wooden stemmer in the operation. This stemmer got fast and broke close to the mouth of the hole. He got a pair of tongs to try and get the broken part of the stemmer out, and while he was doing so the dynamite exploded, and he was so seriously injured that he died about two and a half hours afterwards.

My own opinion of how the accident was caused is that in order to make room for the end of the tongs he had been enlarging the end of the hole with his pick, and had hit a particle of dynamite, or that the concussion had caused the charge to explode. If he was doing this it is a very dangerous operation. He should have drilled another hole alongside this one.

Source:

1896 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8450), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 39 Where to find this report

	Smith, Thomas, aged 30, Rubble Breaker, A charge of dynamite exploded in a shot hole, while he was attempting to withdraw a wooden stemmer which had become fast in the hole, and killed him
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