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Date:	26th August 1898
Colliery:	Storey Lodge
Company:	North Bitchburn Coal Co., Ltd.
Cause:	On Surface
Lives Lost:	1
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No. 393 on the list occurred at Storey Lodge Colliery, belonging to The North Bitchburn Coal Co., Ltd., on August 26th, causing the death of a labourer.

This man had climbed up and was looking over into the apparatus cage hole, and while he was doing so, the cage came down and caught his head and killed him.

For what reason he was doing what he did is not quite clear, but it is thought he was looking down at a man who was clearing out the coals from the bottom of the apparatus hole, but he had no right to be doing this, and his work was some distance away from where he was killed.

This accident shows the danger of men leaving their work and going to other parts of a mine for curiosity's sake, and I hope it will act as a warning to other men, and also to officials to see that men do not do so.

Source:

1898 Mines Inspectors Report (C 9264), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 32 Where to find this report

	Blackett, Ezra, aged 19, Labourer, Head caught by descending apparatus cage. No one was present when the accident occurred, but it is assumed that he had been looking over a fence 4 ft. 9 in. high when the cage came down and caught and killed him. His work was nowhere near the apparatus cage, and he had no right to be where he was, Buried: St. John's Churchyard, Lynesack
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