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Date:	23rd June 1909
Colliery:	Brandon
Company:	Strakers and Love
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1
Category:	Falls in the Mine :: Falls of Side :: On Roads, whilst Repairing or Enlarging

He, with two others, was driving a place through the pillars in the Hutton Seam for an engine plane. The coal was 3 feet thick and a top caunch, also 3 feet thick, was being taken down. This top caunch had been shot down almost on to the coal except at the left side, and a hole was being made in the stone at the right side to take the end of a steel girder, when the piece of caunch left on on the left side came over on to him. Across the face of the caunch was a joint, which was visible prior to the stone falling, but the stone on being jowled was thought to be safe. After the stone had fallen, a joint at an angle to the face joint, and running into it, was to be seen. Above the stone there was a free parting. It is remarkable that the stone stayed up at all. It was an error of judgment on the part of the men not to have taken it down before proceeding with other work

Source:

1909 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 5177) Where to find this report

	Hoban, Michael, aged 32, Stoneman, fall of stone
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