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Date:	11th September 1906
Colliery:	Bedlington
Company:	Bedlington Coal Co., Ltd.
Cause:	Run over by set
Lives Lost:	1
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An endless rope above the tubs worked a straight road and a branch road at right angles; the rope bringing the empty tubs inbye from the shaft on arrival at the junction passes round a sheave, crosses over the full way of the branch road, and then takes the empty tubs into that road, and passing round a return wheel brings the full tubs out to the junction, then crosses over to, and round a second sheave, and goes inbye on the straight road round a second return wheel, and then direct back to the shaft. Deceased worked at the junction, which was lighted by electric lamps, and his duty was to attach the empty tubs going into the branch road to the rope. On the full line of rails of the branch road near where he worked is a knockoff to detach the rope from the V clips on the loaded sets; it consists of two angle irons 15 feet long placed horizontally 1½ inches apart, in which space the rope travels, gradually rising to pass over a sheave placed above at the outer end of the knock-off. The prongs of the clips are prevented rising by the angle-irons and the rope is drawn out and the tubs then run by gravity across the empty road of the straight in road on to the full way. A set of two loaded tubs and an empty water tub came out of the branch road, and at the same time deceased, in some manner not ascertained, got caught between the rope and the knock-off, and his body was cut in two; the upper part being found jammed between the rope and knock-off just above where the water tub was standing, and the lower part and legs were under the first loaded tub. He may have been amusing himself by riding on the rope. The Local Inspectors reported, "Find no blame attached to anyone, and in our opinion it was a pure accident."

Source:

1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 43, Accident Number: 65 Where to find this report

	Davidson, Charles, aged 14, Hanger-on, run over by set
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