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Date:	26th May 1908
Colliery:	Bishop Middleham (Limestone)
Company:	Pease and Partners Ltd.
Cause:	Knocked down by trucks
Lives Lost:	1
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One man, a platelayer's labourer, was killed in Bishop Middleham Quarry, belonging to Messrs. Pease & Partners, Ltd., by having his leg run over by a truck. A locomotive with three wagons in front and one behind passed three platelayers. One of these men, after the locomotive had gone by, began to tighten a bolt on the crossing over which the locomotive and trucks had just passed. The other two men were cutting a piece of wood. They heard the locomotive whistle as it began its return journey towards them, but as they were off the road, they went on cutting the wood. On the truck in front of the locomotive coming near to them, they looked up, and seeing the third man right in the road shouted to him. The truck was being moved at less than a walking pace, but the man never attempted to step clear. He appeared to be paralysed, and the truck, coming on, knocked him down and one wheel went over his leg below the knee, and the next wheel passed over the foot of the same leg. He died six days afterwards. The locomotive was never more than 20 yards away, so he could not forget it. He made no effort to get out of the way.

Source:

1908 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4672) Where to find this report

	Mann, John (died: 01 Jun 1908) , aged 19, Platelayer's Labourer, he, although warned and although the locomotive and trucks approached him at less than a walking pace, failed to get out of the way, and was knocked down and had his leg broken and his foot injured by a truck passing over them; he died six days afterwards
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