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| Date: | 23rd October 1907 |
| Colliery: | North Seaton |
| Company: | Cowpen Coal Co., Ltd. |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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At the entrance to a side road in the Low Main seam close to the shaft, and where the road was 11 feet high by 11 feet wide, a side wall had been built to near the roof on the side of the road nearest the shaft and on the opposite side a wall 7 yards long was in course of erection and girders were to be placed across the road, supported by the two walls. Commencing at the pillar corner 14 inch brickwork had been built a week before the accident to a height of 6 feet and packed behind with duff coal and rubbish. The masons returned on the evening of the 24th to complete the work and first erected a scaffold consisting of three planks 7 inches by 2½ inches called "pudlicks" placed 4 or 6 feet apart with one end resting on the part of the wall already built and the other on props 6 inches diameter placed in the middle of the road and to which the pudlicks were nailed; above these bearers three planks, 15 feet long and 11 inches wide by 3 inches thick were laid, access being gained to the platform by a ladder at one end. Three feet had been added to the wall and a tub and a half of packing filled in behind it and three persons including deceased were on the platform when the whole length of the wall nearly to its base and the platform itself fell over into the road. Deceased was flung against the opposite side of the road and some of the bricks fell on him, he was taken home and died 3 hours later. The foreman mason and master shifter were both within a few feet of the place at the moment of the accident and neither apprehended any danger. The work was being done by days wages. The place was quits dry. After the accident the foundation of the wall was examined and with the exception of a length of about 15 inches was level and good. The Local Inspectors reported "We attribute the cause of the accident to some unforeseen cause, we recommend that in future when walls have to be built to such a height that stays be used to ensure the safety of the workmen."
| Source: | 1907 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4045), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 52, Accident Number: 84 Where to find this report |
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 | Young, Thomas Allen (died: 24 Oct 1907) , aged 48, Mason, crushed when wall collapsed, Buried: St. John's Churchyard, Ashington |
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