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Date:	1st August 1906
Colliery:	West Sleekburn
Company:	Bedlington Coal Co., Ltd.
Cause:	Fall of coal
Lives Lost:	1
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Deceased was hewing during the night shift in a bord 6 yards wide in the Coronation flat of the Low Main seam. The tract of coal here is known as "Swalley" coal, and is of abnormal thickness being made up of 4 feet 10 inches of top coal separated by a 3-inch band from 3 feet 11 inches of bottom coal, or 9 feet in all. Deceased was working his place forward in the top coal and had been sitting on his cracket kyrving his back end. His marrow in a wall 23 yards away heard a fall and ran to the place and found him on the bottom coal and band under a fall of about ½ ton of top coal which had fallen away from a sooty back and a free parting above, riding over a stay he had set. The deputy had examined the place within 2 hours before the night shift hewers started work, when it appeared safe and he saw there was plenty of spare timber. The Local Inspectors reported, "We are of opinion it is a pure accident, the coal having come off by a sooty facing, and we are satisfied. that deceased had his stay in and that the weight of the coal pressed the stay out."

Source:

1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 28, Accident Number: 50 Where to find this report

	Murray, Robert, aged 25, Hewer, killed by a fall of coal, Buried: Cambois Churchyard on 04 Aug 1906
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