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| Date: | 13th December 1900 |
| Colliery: | South Durham |
| Company: | South Durham Coal Co., Ltd. |
| Cause: | Shaft Accident |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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No. 467 on the list occurred at South Durham Colliery, belonging to Messrs. The South Durham Coal Co., Ltd., on December 13th, and caused the death of a banksman who was assisting a shaftman.
One of the water rings in the shaft was running over and required to be cleaned out, and a water box had to be repaired.
The shaftman and deceased went down the cage top and took an 11 ins, by 3 ins. batten, 9 ft. in length, with them. The cage was stopped at the ring and was about 4 ft. 9 ins, from the water box just above the ring. They then placed one end of the batten under some of the shaft timber, and also secured it to the cage chains, so as to be able to walk along it to repair the water box, and left the other end unsupported.
They finished the repairing of the box and deceased was turning round on the plank when he over balanced himself and fell to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 25 yards, and was killed.
A plank fixed in the way this one was for men to stand on, in a shaft, is most dangerous, and I am surprised that a shaftman with the experience this one had should have done such a risky thing. I hope it will be a warning to him and others, and that I shall not hear again of such a thing being done.
| Source: | 1900 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 536), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 21 Where to find this report |
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 | Thompson, William, aged 28, Banksman, He was assisting the shaftman to clean out a water ring, about 12½ fathoms from the bottom of the shaft. They had a plank from cage top to shaft side, and he slipped off this, fell to the bottom and was killed. |
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