| Date: | 1920 |
| Colliery: | Heworth |
| Company: | |
| Cause: | Fall of stone |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
| Category: | |
Heworth Colliery, Co. Durham, a coal hewer was working in a seam of 5 ft. 8 in. in total section, with 2 ft. of middle band, and was hewing coal from the bottom section, when a piece of band measuring 6ft. by 2ft. by 12in. fell upon him and caused such injuries that he died the same day. Breaks in the band are quite common and the deputy had seen breaks on his inspection, but stated that they were so obvious he did not mention them to the hewer. He was censured by the Jury at the Coroner's enquiry. The accident was the result of gross carelessness. On the next working day when the Inspector of Mines was making an investigation, he found hewers working under exactly similar conditions within five yards of the scene of the accident.
| Source: | 1920 Mines Inspectors Report |
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