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Date:	15th August 1902
Colliery:	Esh
Company:	Pease and Partners Ltd.
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1
Category:

No. 287 on the list occurred at Esh Colliery, belonging to Messrs. Pease and Partners, Ltd., on August 15th, and caused the death of a driver.

The deceased boy was employed to drive a pony with sets of full and empty tubs to and from the landing to the flat, where another class of boys, viz., putters, take the empty tubs to the coal faces and bring the full tubs out. He should not have, unless ordered to do so by some of the officials, gone beyond the flat, but on the day in question he had taken a tub with the intention of pushing it into the face when he was met by a putter coming out with a full tub, which caught the one deceased was pushing in, and caused his head to be crushed against a prop, fracturing his skull. The putter did not know he was coming in with a tub, and expected he had a clear road in front of him to the flat.

I know it is very difficult to prevent boys taking tubs in in this way ; they are usually very anxious to do the work they will in course of time be promoted to do, and, unless strictly watched and punished if caught doing any work but their own, they will indulge in what this accident proves to be a dangerous practice.

Source:

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

	More, John Thomas, aged 15, Driver, skull fractured by being crushed against a prop by a full tub ; he had, without permission, taken an empty tub in-bye from the flat, and attempted to put it into a place end, but was caught by a tub a putter was bringing out ; the putter did not know he was there till he was caught
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