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Date:	22nd November 1905
Colliery:	Tanfield Lea
Company:	James Joicey and Co., Ltd.
Cause:	Caught by tubs
Lives Lost:	1
Category:	Miscellaneous Underground :: Haulage :: Run over or Crushed by Trams or Tubs

Deceased, who had only worked a fortnight at the colliery, was coming outbye with his pony drawing two full tubs on a nearly level road 3 feet 7 inches high and in good order. The drivers do not ride with the full tub as there is not room to sit on the coals and the eyebolt of the tub is too high for them to sit on the limbers. He was found lying on his breast on the left side of the road with his head outbye clear of the rails but the first tub was off the way at the fore end and was upon him. The pony was standing hung on to the tubs between the rails and the left side of the road. His safety lamp was found under one of the tubs. The pony was said to be quiet. A few yards inbye of where he was found the rails were within 1 foot of the coal on the left side and he may have been caught here while walking alongside the tub. Deceased was not registered as required by the Coal Mines Act; he had, it was stated, got work himself and represented his age as 17, which age it was further stated his appearance did not belie. The Local Inspectors reported "we find its pure accident."

Source:

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

	Parkin, Matthew, aged 15, Driver, caught by tubs
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