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| Date: | 12th April 1901 |
| Colliery: | Elemore |
| Company: | Hetton Coal Co., Ltd. |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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No. 136 on the list occurred at Elemore Colliery belonging to Messrs. The Hetton Coal Company, Limited, on April 12th, and caused the death of a back-bye deputy.
The deceased man, who was an old experienced deputy, was, with a stoneman, renewing the timber in a district, which was being re-opened, in the Low Main Seam. They came to a place where he knew the stone forming the roof was insecure, and where slips and coal pipes were to be seen ; but instead of setting timber to protect themselves while deceased removed a running plank which was too near the way, he knocked a prop out. The stone hung for a minute or two and then fell, displacing some of the other timber, and caught deceased, inflicting such injuries that he died twelve hours afterwards.
The stoneman had a very narrow escape ; the edge of the stone hit him on the forehead, but, fortunately, knocked him out of the way.
This accident, if the most ordinary precautions had been taken, would not have occurred ; and I am surprised that a man with the experience deceased had did not take them.
| Source: | 1901 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1062), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 17 Where to find this report |
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 | Hall, John Scott, aged 63, Back-bye Deputy, This man, with a shifter, was preparing a district for work again, it having been standing for eight years. They were renewing timber, and had occasion to draw out some old timber, when a large stone fell and so severely injured him that he died the same day. He had set no timber for his own protection., Buried: Easington Lane Cemetery |
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