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| Date: | 29th December 1897 |
| Colliery: | Bolam (quarry) |
| Company: | Ord and Maddison Ltd. |
| Cause: | By blasting |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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The fatal accident occurred to a quarry manager. He had charged a hole with gelignite a fortnight before, but did not get it to explode, and was drilling a hole along side it, when it exploded and the force blew him over the quarry face and he fell a distance of 40 feet, being so severely injured that he died within two hours of the accident occurring. He had no doubt, not kept the hole parallel to the other, and drilled into either the detonator or explosive in the old hole.
| Source: | 1897 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8819), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 58 Where to find this report |
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 | Bowes, John, aged 65, Manager, A charge of gelignite, put into a hole on the 15th inst., and which then failed to explode, near which deceased was drilling, exploded and blew him over the quarry face he fell a distance of 40 feet and died within two hours |
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