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| Date: | 13th April 1910 |
| Colliery: | Burnhope |
| Company: | U. A. Ritson and Sons Ltd. |
| Cause: | Run over by set |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
| Category: | Miscellaneous Underground Accidents :: Haulage :: Run over or crushed by Trams and Tubs |
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At Burnhope Colliery a driver was the victim of a simple and uncommon accident. The bolt, into the eye of which the limbers are attached, was secured inside the tub by means of a nut, which, having worked loose, allowed the bolt to pull out when the lad was sitting on the limbers and he fell in front of the set of tubs, and his skull was fractured. The bolts were afterwards all hammered over to prevent a similar occurrence.
| Source: | 1910 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 5676) Where to find this report |
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 | Ross, Edward, aged 16, Driver, He was about to drive away with four full tubs, and after hanging on his pony he put in his cotter. Whilst deceased was sitting down on the limbers driving the pony the nut came off the bolt end inside the tub and Ross fell to the ground. The tubs passed on to him and his skull was smashed. The nut had apparently worked loose and come off the bolt end inside the tub. After the accident the bolt ends on all tubs were hammered down so that the nut could not become unscrewed, Buried: St. John's Churchyard, Burnhope |
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