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Date:	2nd March 1906
Colliery:	Hedley Hope
Company:	Sir B. Samuelson and Co., Ltd.
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1
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One at the Hedley Hope Colliery belonging to Messrs. Sir B. Samuelson & Co., Limited. In this case a man went down into a road to help another to move two trucks. The trucks were started and the man attempted to walk alongside them as they were moving under an archway. The space between the archway walls and the truck sides was very restricted, and there was no room for a man there. The second moving truck squeezed him against the side and rolled him round and round and killed him. In view of the increased size of railway trucks, it is desirable that, where alterations cannot be made to widen the spaces between cokeyard trucks and in archways, notices should be posted forbidding anyone to go down into the gullets where the trucks run, or under the archways.

Source:

1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 24 Where to find this report

	Appleby, Richard, aged 61, Labourer, When assisting to move two railway trucks, he was squeezed and killed between the side of a truck and a retaining wall.
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