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Date:	5th March 1907
Colliery:	Chopwell
Company:	Consett Iron Co., Ltd.
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1
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A conveyor on the trough system, worked by an electric motor, extended for 60 yards along a longwall face in the Towneley Seam, 2 feet thick, and deceased, while casting stones from the face across the extremity of the conveyor into the goaf beyond, appears to have slipped his foot on the angle iron at the base of the conveyor, and it was caught by the conveyor chain as it was going on to the tumbler or return wheel, and his right leg was torn off below the knee. The tumbler wheel is 25 inches diameter, and is fitted with 6 teeth each about 2½ inches long. The chain moves at a speed of about 20 feet per minute. The space into which he got his foot was only about 7 inches square, and since the accident has been closed by a plate. The overman was only about 6 feet from deceased when the accident happened, and he called to the motor attendant and it was stopped in about a minute. Deceased was taken to Newcastle Infirmary and operated on, but he gradually got weaker and expired next day from shock and loss of blood.

Source:

1907 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4045), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 51, Accident Number: 17 Where to find this report

	Stephenson, Joseph (died: 06 Mar 1907) , aged 29, Hewer, Buried: Brigham Parish Church, Brigham, Cumbria
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