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Date:	3rd May 1906
Colliery:	Throckley
Company:	Throckley Coal Co., Ltd.
Cause:	Fall of stone
Lives Lost:	1
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Deceased and three others were working bargain work during the night making a new flat in the Haugh way of the Stone Coal seam of the Derwentwater pit. The seam is 2 feet inches thick, and a top canch of I foot 8 inches, already partly taken down, with a bottom canch of 2 feet 6 inches made the height. A shot of saxonite was fired in the bottom canch at the left side about three-quarters of an hour before the accident, and deceased was at the top of the canch a few feet inbye building a pack on the same side, when a piece of blue metal, 7½ feet long by 2 feet wide and 14½ inches thick, relieved by slips at each end, which appear not to have been observed before the accident, fell upon his head partly from the side and partly from the roof. The leading man of the party had examined the stone before the accident, and set a prop with a sleeper as a headtree under the inbye end of it. The prop was canted out. There was plenty of loose timber handy for use. The backshift deputy passed the place about the time they started work, but they were not visited by an official during the course of the shift, although the master shifter came directly he heard of the accident. The Local Inspectors reported, "In our opinion it is a pure accident from a fall of stone through an entire deceptive roof. There has been no negligence whatever on the part of any one, as the place round about was securely timbered, also there being plenty of timber at hand."

Source:

1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 26, Accident Number: 26 Where to find this report

	Pick, Thomas, aged 31, Stoneman, killed by a fall of stone
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