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Date:	23rd April 1897
Colliery:	South Pontop
Company:	U. A. Ritson
Cause:	Miscellaneous and on Trams and Tubs
Lives Lost:	1
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No. 181 on the list occurred at South Pontop Colliery, belonging to Mr. U. A. Ritson, on the 23rd of April, and caused the death of a hewer on September 18th.

Deceased and another man were going in-bye to their work in the back shift, and when they had gone about 80 yards they met a driver coming out with a full set. Deceased was following the other man who had a lighted candle, but he had no light. The driver on seeing the light shouted to them to get out of the way; the man who was leading stepped to one side on to a canch quite clear of the tubs and where there was also plenty of room for the deceased as well, but for some reason of his own he went on, although he had no light, to another opening on to the top of a canch by the side of the road. The set had ten tubs on, and was travelling at a fast walk. Whether deceased had been sitting on the canch with his feet near the rail and thus been caught by the passing tubs, or had got on to the top of the canch and some soft coal had given way at the edge of it and so let him down just as the tubs were opposite him, it is not quite clear, but he was caught and dragged for a short distance by the tubs, and so severely crushed that he eventually died from the effects of the injury. It is to be regretted he did not go where the other man was and where he would have been safe.

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

	Errington, John (died: 18 Sep 1897) , aged 54, Hewer, Crushed between tubs and side, and cut about head and body, by being caught by driver's set. There was plenty of room by the side of the way. Died on September 18th
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