| Date: | 1925 |
| Colliery: | Randolph |
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| Cause: | Fall of stone |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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A fatality at Randolph Colliery, Durham, affords a typical instance of a common defective practice. Two hewers starting from the side of an old wagonway in which a top canch, 18 in. thick, had been taken down many years ago, commenced to take a lift, slightly to the rise, off a pillar. After hewing sufficient coal, they set a plank with a centre and one end prop to support the canch edge. When preparing to set the other end prop, the canch suddenly collapsed and one of them was caught by a large piece of stone and instantly killed. The canch came away from a concealed slip a few inches over the coal head, canting out the plank and props and bursting off some coal. Stay props should have been set to support the face of the canch before the men were allowed to start work. Responsibility for accidents of this type rests as much, if not more, with the officials as with the workmen themselves.
| Source: | 1925 Mines Inspectors Report |
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