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Date:	22nd November 1905
Colliery:	Heworth
Company:	Heworth Coal Co., Ltd.
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1
Category:	Falls in Mine :: Falls of Roof

Deceased, who was rather deaf, was working alone in a longwall place in the Beaumont seam stowing bandstone in the goaf behind. A prop about 8 feet back from the face and partly stowed up with bandstone seems to have been in his way, and he stated before his death that after examining the roof above it and jowling it he thought it safe to draw; he struck it with an axe from the face side, but as this was the direction in which it had probably been driven when set, was unable to move it, and he got behind and to one side of it on the stowing and knocked it out in the opposite direction. when a flake of brat (or coarse coal and stone mixed) 9 feet by 7 feet and 2½ inches thick, relieved by a good parting above and a small hitch leader at one side, fell upon him and fastened him. He was found in this position by the chargeman about a quarter of an hour later. He was sent to Newcastle Infirmary, but the doctors there pronounced the case hopeless and he was sent back home. Deceased should not have drawn the prop from the waste without having with him an appliance for drawing timber without risk, as required by the New Timbering Special Rules. The regular prop drawers have such an appliance. The Local Inspectors reported: "In our opinion it was a pure accident."

Source:

1905 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2910) Where to find this report

	Race, John (died: 07 Dec 1905) , aged 59, Shifter
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