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| Date: | 8th August 1901 |
| Colliery: | Newfield |
| Company: | Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., Ltd. |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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No. 267 on the list occurred at Newfield Colliery, belonging to Messrs. Bolckow, Vaughan & Co., Ltd., on August 8th, and caused the death of a landing boy.
An empty set was going into the landing, and when the deceased signalled to the hauling engineman to stop it he put two sprags in the wheels of the tubs and caught hold of the last tub and followed behind the set a few yards. When it stopped the tubs rebounded slightly and caught deceased, whose head was close to a baulk, and so severely injured him that he died almost immediately.
This is an accident which shows the great danger that men and boys run where the space between the tubs and timber is small. In this case it was only four inches, and the unfortunate boy, I have no doubt, had no idea that his head was in such a position or that it would be caught when the tubs rebounded from being stopped. Much has been done in late years to make roads higher, but there is still much room for improvement in this respect, and I hope owners and managers will, by providing more space in the haulage roads, make the number of persons killed and injured from this cause less in future.
A man or boy when working about tubs is apt to forget that there is only a small space between them and the timber and get his head up, with the result that they are either killed or seriously injured.
| Source: | 1901 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1062), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 28 Where to find this report |
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 | Robinson, John, aged 15, Landing Lad, killed by head being crushed between top of a tub and a baulk |
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