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| Date: | 28th April 1900 |
| Colliery: | Trimdon Grange |
| Company: | Walter Scott Ltd. |
| Cause: | Shaft Accident |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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No. 156 on the list occurred at Trimdon Grange Colliery, belonging to Messrs. Walter Scott, Limited, on April 28th, and caused the death of a shaftman.
Deceased and another shaftman went into a staple, from the main coal seam at Kelloe Winning, down which coals are dropped by means of two cages to the low main seam at Trimdon Grange Colliery, to put in some new guides or "skeets." The size of this staple is 12 ft. by 6 ft.
At the time of the accident a "skeet" was being put in about 14 yards from the top of the staple. Deceased was standing on the top of one of the cages, and the other shaftman, who was the leading or chargeman, was standing on a scaffold, formed of 11 ins, by 1½ in. deals placed across the buntons, 6 feet below where deceased was.
The object of the deceased being on the top of the cage was so that he could, when the "skeet" was fastened to the bunton 6 feet below, push it into position at the bunton above. He had, however, never touched the guide at all, but by sonme means he fell off the cage top, hit the chargeman below, and carried him and the scaffold away; fortunately the other shaftman, after falling a short distance got hold of some of the timber, and managed to hang there till assistance came. Deceased fell on to the other cage top, where he was found quite dead.
What was the cause of the man falling off the cage-top is a mystery. The shaftman said nothing fell, and deceased never spoke or shouted.
The sides of the staple had been well dressed back, and there did not appear to be any stone that was likely to fall away.
The scaffold on which the shaftman was standing cannot have been very securely fastened, or it would not have been carried away. The shaftman says he wedged it tight at both ends, and he is a very good man at his work, having had 25 years experience in all kinds of shafts.
It was a very simple accident, and the probability is that deceased had been leaning over watching the other man working, and he had either slipped or overbalanced himself
| Source: | 1900 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 536), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 19 Where to find this report |
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 | Cummings, George, aged 42, Shaftman, While engaged putting guides in a staple he slipped and fell off the cage top and fell on to the other cage top 22 yards below and was killed. |
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