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Date:	23rd June 1910
Colliery:	Tudhoe
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Cause:	Strain
Lives Lost:	1
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Joseph Evans, 41, of Spennymoor, died on 7th September. At the inquest his wife said he complained that he was strained himself while working at Tudhoe Colliery on 23rd June. William Lawson, who was working with him at the time, said, "Evans, who was lying on his side in a place about one foot ten inches in height, throwing coal out, wrenched his side. He worked an hour after, and by that time his day's work was over."

Evans worked intermittently during the next fortnight, all the time complaining of pain and saying he was trying to work it off.

A post mortem showed that death was due to cancer of the liver, and that the strain had nothing to do with it.

Evans, a former Spennymoor town councillor, was also chairman of the Tudhoe Branch of the DMA.

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Text kindly provided by Jim Grainger from his research into early newspapers (primarily the Durham Advertiser and Durham Chronicle).

	Evans, Joseph (died: 07 Sep 1910) , strain
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