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Date:	6th April 1900
Colliery:	Ushaw Moor
Company:	Pease and Partners Ltd.
Cause:	Accident on Surface
Lives Lost:	1
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No. 140 on the list occurred at Ushaw Moor Colliery, belonging to Messrs. Pease and Partners, Ltd., on April 6th, and caused the death of a fitter.

Deceased had charge of the telephone electric signal wires at this colliery, and had been fixing a telephone in the winding engine house, and when he finished doing so it was between 4.30 and 5 o'clock. His shift should have finished at 5 o'clock, and to fill in the time he had gone to where some signal wires were, close to the pumping engine quadrant, to take them down, and while the quadrant was in motion he had been standing on the carriage reaching up to the wires, when his head was crushed between it and the shaft timbering and he was killed.

No one knew he had gone to do this work, and it was only when a message came from his home that he had not returned from work that a search was made, and he was found at 9.30 at night lying dead by the quadrant.

The quadrant and other machinery were properly fenced and secured, and deceased was within the fencing.

He should have had the engine stopped till he got the wires down, but he had evidently thought he could manage without doing so. He was a careful man as a rule, and had been at the colliery for more than ten years, and therefore knew the place well.

Source:

1900 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 536), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 31 Where to find this report

	Stephenson, Frederick, aged 31, Fitter, While taking some electric wires down near the quadrant of a pumping engine, while it was in motion, his head was caught between the quadrant and part of the shaft timber and he was killed instantly., Buried: St. Michael & All Angels Churchyard, Esh
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11 Apr 1900

Inquests In North-West Durham (Northern Echo)

 

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