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| Date: | 10th March 1906 |
| Colliery: | Harraton |
| Company: | Lambton Collieries Ltd. |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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One at Harraton Colliery belonging to Messrs. The Lambton Collieries, Limited, resulted in the death of a screener. He came down from the screens by a stairway, in order to go to the bait cabin, which was on the opposite side of the sidings. Immediately opposite him as he came down the stairway was a gap between the trucks already loaded and one being loaded. Rather than go round the fore end of the loaded trucks, he attempted to pass through the gap. Unaware of the man's presence, the truckman at the same moment knocked a chock out from beneath the wheels of the truck being loaded. This truck moved forward, and the man was caught and crushed between the buffers of the trucks already loaded and the one being loaded. Boards have since been erected forbidding anyone to cross the sidings, and the bait cabin has been moved to the side nearest the stairway leading from the screens.
| 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 |
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 | Hall, Anthony, aged 63, Screener, When attempting to cross between laden trucks and a truck being loaded, the latter was moved forward and he was caught between the buffers of this truck and those of the trucks already laden. |
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