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| Date: | 26th October 1900 |
| Colliery: | Dorothea Pit, Newbottle |
| Company: | Lambton Collieries Ltd. |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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No. 415 on the list occurred at the Dorothea Pit of Newbottle Colliery, belonging to The Lambton Collieries, Limited, on October 26th and caused the death of a back-overman.
A panel of stone about seven inches in thickness had fallen on the engine plane and deceased and three others, after casting the stones to one side, were preparing to set a prop under some stone, which, on being tried sounded heavy, when it suddenly fell and killed deceased and injured the others.
The roof in this seam is good and requires very little timber. It is difficult to account for the fall as the place had been standing just as it was for some 20 years. The seam 22 fathoms below is being worked and the probability is that this has affected the roof of this waggon-way.
I am very sorry indeed to have to report the result of this accident. Deceased was a man of good experience ; his employers speak of him in the highest terms, and he was also held in high regard by the workmen. Altogether he was an official whom it will be difficult to replace.
| 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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 | Laidler, James, aged 49, Back-overman, A pannel, about seven inches thick, of stone had fallen on the engine plane and he and three others, after casting the stones to one side, were preparing to set a prop under some stone which sounded heavy, when it suddenly fell and killed him. The place had been standing as it was for 20 years., Buried: St. Cuthberts Churchyard, West Herrington |
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