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Date:	12th September 1906
Colliery:	Cramlington, Dudley Pit
Company:	Cramlington Coal Co., Ltd.
Cause:	Run over by trucks
Lives Lost:	1
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The branch horseman took three empty trucks, used for bringing chopped hay to the Dudley pit, along a nearly level siding to a point about 200 yards north of the pit and adjacent to the North-Eastern Railway. He unhooked his horse and came back past the west side of the trucks. The brakes were on the east side with the handles at the north end, and deceased walked alongside the trucks on the east side with a view to put down the brakes. The horseman heard or saw nothing of the accident, but found deceased lying alongside the first truck clear of the rails, except that one foot was on the east-side rail between the wheels. He was unconscious, and died in a few minutes. The brake of the leading truck was down, and as deceased's right arm was broken and his chest crushed it is probable that in using the brake he had slipped before the wheel. There were a number of loose bricks lying within 2 or 3 feet of the rails, and he may have tripped over one of them. The Local Inspectors reported, "We are of opinion that it was purely accidental."

Source:

1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 66, Accident Number: 66 Where to find this report

	Walker, John, aged 17, Shunter, run over by trucks
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