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Date:	9th November 1906
Colliery:	Round Hill (Whinstone)
Company:	Bradley Brothers Ltd.
Cause:	Fall of ground
Lives Lost:	1
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The third occurred in the Round Hill Whinstone Quarry belonging to Messrs. Bradley Brothers, Limited. Two men were engaged driving a tunnel underneath a field road. On arriving at the quarry in the morning they found that the very heavy rain which had fallen during the night had caused some earth to slide down from above the entrance to the tunnel on to the tramway. They made an examination of the surroundings to see if anything further was likely to come away, and then, thinking all was safe, began to fill the fallen dirt into a trolley. They filled four trolleys, and were about to push the fourth away along the tramway when a fall of stone came away from the side and buried one of them. Just a moment or two previously, the foreman of the quarry had been talking to the two men and had himself examined the place and thought it was safe. The men were old experienced men, but were deceived. No doubt the heavy rainfall had loosened the piece of side which fell, and they had failed to detect it.

Source:

1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 33 Where to find this report

	Davison, Robert, aged 60, Quarryman, He was killed by a fall of ground from above where he was working. Very heavy rains probably loosened the ground.
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