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Date:	5th February 1907
Colliery:	Washington
Company:	Washington Coal Co., Ltd.
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1
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Two holes each 3 feet deep, were drilled near the roof in a place 7 feet wide in coal seam, 4 feet 8 inches thick. Each hole was charged with Bellite No. 3 and was fitted with a detonator and wires for electric firing. The shot on the right side was coupled up to the cable by the deputy who retired about 33 yards and round a corner and fired the shot, leaving deceased to retire along a place to the right near where the shots were being fired in order to prevent a hewer who worked further in coming out past the shots. After the first shot was fired the deputy without making any examination of the place as required by special rule and against the provisions of the Explosives in Coal Mines Order allowed the hewer to couple up the second shot. While he was doing so the hewer from further in came out to see the deputy, who thinking it was the hewer whose shots he was firing turned on the current and the hewer who had not left the face was seriously injured and died nine days after. The deputy was fined for breach of the Special Rule.

Source:

1907 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4045), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 44, Accident Number: 11 Where to find this report

	Gardner, William Edward (died: 14 Feb 1907) , aged 20, Hewer, [Sunderland Echo reports: accident - 15 Feb 1907], Buried: Washington Cemetery
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