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| Date: | 1st November 1900 |
| Colliery: | Blackhill |
| Company: | Consett Iron Co., Ltd. |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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No. 418 on the list occurred at Blackhill Colliery belonging to Messrs. The Consett Iron Company, Limited, on November 1st, causing the death of a coal hewer.
Deceased was working in the three-quarter seam in "broken" workings. The deputy met him at the "meeting-station" and told him, as soon as he worked all the coal off in his place, he was to come back and start another place, which he (the deputy) had marked off for him. The place in which he started had been at work in the fore-shift, and it was taking off a stook of a pillar of coal. There was, however, a piece of coal which had been left in order to keep a water level open and the roof up, and deceased knew it had to be left.
The deputy, in going his rounds, went into the place and found that a fall had occurred and deceased was lying under it dead. The fall was four feet from where he had been at work in his proper place, and the stook of coal had been all taken off next, to the goaf. Having got the stook of coal worked off be should have come back to the place the deputy told him he had marked off, but it was hard to work, and it appears he had been tempted to work away some of the coal which it was intended to leave for the support of the water- level and had not set any timber under the stone, and the result was, it fell and killed him.
I very much regret to have to report an accident of this kind, as it was caused by disobedience to orders issued for the protection of the man himself. If he had done as the deputy told him to do, finish his working place and then come back and turn another one away, he would probably not have been injured at all. There are, and always will be, accidents from falls of stone which cannot be prevented, but this belongs to a class which should never occur, and I cannot too strongly impress on everyone the necessity of all orders given to workmen and others for their safety, being observed and strictly carried out.
| Source: | 1900 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 536), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 17 Where to find this report |
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 | Wears, John William, aged 32, Hewer, Killed by a fall of ramble stone 6½ inches thick. He was working contrary to orders at a piece of coal intended to be left to support a water level. |
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