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Date:	12th February 1906
Colliery:	Chopwell
Company:	Consett Iron Co., Ltd.
Cause:	Fall of stone
Lives Lost:	1
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Deceased was hewing alone in a loose jenkin, 5 yards wide, just turned away off an old headways in the 1st East flat of the Towneley seam, which is 2 feet 4 inches thick, when a stone, 5½ feet by 2½ feet and 16 inches thick, fell upon him from the brow of the canch that had been taken down in the old headways. The stone would weigh about one ton, and was relieved by a breaker over the coal and a slip at one side, and had a free side next the old headways; in its fall it canted out a prop set under it, and also knocked out a prop under one end of a plank crossing the headways. The foreshift deputy has been twice in the place during the time deceased's brother occupied it during the foreshift and had observed no special danger. There was plenty of loose timber close at hand. The Local Inspectors reported, "We find that in our opinion it is a pure accident, there being sufficient timber in the place." There is always extra danger from falls of stone in driving the first yard or two from an old road.

Source:

1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 25, Accident Number: 8 Where to find this report

	Ruddick, Francis, aged 32, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone, Buried: St. John the Baptist Churchyard, Chopwell
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