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Date:	1920
Colliery:	Hartford
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Cause:	Suffocated from carbon monoxide
Lives Lost:	1
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An unusual accident at the Hartford Colliery, Northumberland, caused the death of a stoneman named Scott by inhaling carbon-monoxide gas. This man and a companion named Hamilton had been driving a narrow place in coal at the rise side of a fault for the purpose of holing into the workings of another district. On the day in question a chargeman gave them instructions to bore a hole 5 ft. in depth in the face of the coal about the middle of the seam, and explained that he thought they would blow through to a road in the adjoining district. He also gave Scott a box containing 12 detonators; as he later explained, he thought Scott was authorised to carry them. Scott drilled the hole, charged it with 18 ozs. of gelignite, and fired it. After firing, the two men got their meal and then Scott returned to the face and found it was a blown-out shot. He retired once more until another chargeman came to visit them, and he and the chargeman examined the face and then sat for some ten minutes a few yards from the face. After the chargeman left, Hamilton joined Scott and saw him commence to stamp a hole for another shot; he then went back for the drilling gear. When Hamilton returned he found Scott swaying his head and unable to speak. Hamilton attempted to pull Scott out and dragged him probably six or eight feet, walking backwards, when he apparently fell down the fault and lost consciousness. Some two hours later the two men were missed and the chargeman and another went to the place and found them. Scott was then warm and the chargeman thought there was a movement of the heart. They were taken outbye into fresh air where Hamilton recovered. Artifical respiration was used for an hour upon Scott but without success. The chargeman, unfortunately, had no ambulance training. Oxygen was afterwards administered but with no good results. Had Scott received skilled attention when found, it is possible that he might have recovered.

Source:

1920 Mines Inspectors Report

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