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Date:	13th June 1901
Colliery:	Middleton (Whinstone)
Company:	Ord and Maddison Ltd.
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1
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There was one fatal accident causing the death of one person from this cause. It was No. 30 on the list, and occurred at Middleton Quarry, belonging to Messrs. Ord and Maddison, Limited, on June 13th. and caused the death of a man employed to couple and uncouple trucks near a stone breaker. He was lowering a truck down and was fatally crushed between it and an upright leg forming part of the frame carrying the revolving screen in connection with the stone breaker. He had been warned to be careful, but, evidently in a moment of forgetfulness, had not remembered that there was not room for him between the truck and the post, and was so caught. The Company promised to do all they could to prevent such an accident occurring, and I hope efforts to do so will be successful.

Source:

1901 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1062), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 67 Where to find this report

	Hebdon, James, aged 19, Coupling & Uncoupling Trucks, fatally injured by his head being crushed between the side of a waggon and an upright post
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