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Date:	18th March 1897
Colliery:	Dorothea Pit, Newbottle
Company:	Lambton Collieries Ltd.
Cause:	Miscellaneous and on Trams and Tubs
Lives Lost:	1
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No. 126 on the list occurred at the Dorothea pit of Newbottle Colliery, belonging to The Lambton Collieries, Ltd., on the 18th of March, causing the death of a shaft lad.

This accident was caused by the deceased boy leaving his own work and attempting to do that of another boy. His duty was to take the empty tubs from the onsetter and put them on to two creepers which conveyed them to the bottom of a staple in the Maudlin seam, he, however, went to the bottom of this staple, and commenced to take the full tubs out of the cage and put the empty ones in, and the boy whose regular work this was went to do what the deceased should have done.

Fifteen empty tubs were standing at the staple bottom, with a sprag in the wheel of the first one, as the gradient falls slightly towards the staple. He took this sprag out to have the tub ready when the cage came down, but at the same time another tub came round from the creeper and bumped into the fifteen tubs, and he, to stop them, instead of putting a sprag in, as he would most probably have done had he known the work, got in front of the tubs to try and hold them, and was so severely crushed between them and the staple framing, that he died shortly afterwards.

There was nothing wrong at all with the staple, tubs, or way, and the accident is solely due to the deceased breaking the rules by leaving his own work and attempting to do that of another person.

Source:

1897 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8819), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 30 Where to find this report

	Ferris, Duncan, aged 16, Shaft Lad, He left his own work, and commenced without permission to onset at a staple bottom, and while doing so was crushed between some empty tubs and the staple framing, and so severely crushed that he died shortly afterwards [Sunderland Daily Echo reports: accident - 19 Mar 1897 pg 3 col 4; inquest 22 Mar 1897 pg 3 col 4]
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