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Date:	13th March 1907
Colliery:	Boldon
Company:	Harton Coal Co., Ltd.
Cause:	Fall of roof
Lives Lost:	1
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Deceased was what is known as a hewing putter, that is, although ordinarily employed as a putter he was given a place to hew in when hewers were absent and there was not work for all the putters. On the day of the accident the fore shift deputy, finding two of the fore shift hewers were absent, after starting those that had come in, returned to one of the vacant places, a lift in broken workings in the straight in flat of the south way of the Bensham seam of No. 3 Pit, and made it ready for a putter to work in, putting up a pair of gears next the loose side, and a prop and plank at the fast side. About 7 a.m. the putters came in, including deceased, who was directed to hew in the place made ready for him. Between 9 and 10 a.m. a putter found deceased fast under a fall, and getting help he was liberated. His arm and leg were broken, and his bladder ruptured, and he died at the Ingham Infirmary, South Shields on the 17th. The stone was blue metal, and was about 10 feet long by 3½ feet wide at its base, and irregular in section, with a maximum thickness of 3 feet. It was relieved by slips, and fell off by the coal face next the loose side, and in its fall displaced the pair of gears and broke the plank of the prop and plank the deputy had set. There was plenty of loose timber lying in the place. Deceased had frequently hewed during the three months before the accident.

Source:

1907 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4045), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 38, Accident Number: 19 Where to find this report

	Fletcher, George, aged 28, Hewing-Putter, killed by a fall of roof
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