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Date:	11th March 1902
Colliery:	Shildon Lodge
Company:	Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., Ltd.
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1
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No. 99 on this list occurred at Shildon Lodge Colliery, belonging to Messrs. Bolckow, Vaughan & Co., Ltd., on March 11th, and caused the death of an incline boy.

The deceased's duty was to attach the empty tubs to a rope at the bottom of a self-acting incline, and also to take off the full tubs as they came down.

The incline is 150 yards long, and the gradient is one in nine. The sets are made up of three tubs each, and the weight of the full tubs coming down the heavy gradient takes the empty tubs up the incline. At the top of all such inclines it is necessary, in order to prevent tubs accidentally running amain and doing damage to life and property, to have safety appliances, which usually work automatically. Such appliances were provided on this incline, but they had been allowed to get out of order, and were not acting properly at the time of the accident.

Deceased had attached three empty tubs to the rope at the bottom, and the lad at the top attached the full set and then braked it down the incline. It got to the bottom, the deceased boy was taking the rope off, when the empty set which had just gone up, instead of being held by the safety appliances at the top, on the rope being taken off, ran amain down the incline, and at the bottom caught and killed him.

I called the manager's attention to the unsatisfactory state of affairs, and he promised that it should be put right.

Source:

1902 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1590) Where to find this report

	Mather, Alfred, aged 17, Incline Boy, caught and killed by set at the bottom of an incline ; he was putting the chain on to an empty set when the empty tubs, at the top, ran amain down the incline, and caught him between them and the tubs he was putting the chain on
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