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| Date: | 29th November 1899 |
| Colliery: | Trimdon Grange |
| Company: | Walter Scott, Ltd. |
| Cause: | Fall of roof or side |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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No. 457 on the list occurred at Trimdon Grange Colliery, belonging to Messrs. Walter Scott, Ltd., on November 2 9th, causing the death of a stoneman.
Deceased and another stoneman were taking down some stone to make waggonway height, and to do so were drawing the timber out, and allowing the stone resting on it to fall to a parting about 5 feet above. In this particular case, after the stone fell away, there was a large stone overhanging from the face of the "canch," which the master shifter, who bad come into the place, and deceased, thought dangerous, and they tried unsuccessfully for half an hour or so with bars and picks to get it down. They then decided to put a small shot in it, and while they were drilling the hole the stone fell away suddenly and caught and killed deceased.
There is little doubt, I think, that in trying to get the stone down they had moved it and it fell out at a slip or ledge without giving any warning.
The master shifter is a careful man, and deceased was a stoneman of long experience and good judgment, and I regret very much to have to report his death.
| Source: | 1899 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 134), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 19 Where to find this report |
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 | Emery, George, aged 58, Stoneman, He was in the act of drilling a hole into a stone to get it down, when it fell away and killed him. Killed in the Harvey Seam, his son (Thomas) was killed in the same seam 2 years earlier, Buried: East End Cemetery, Trimdon |
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