| Date: | 1925 |
| Colliery: | Usworth |
| Company: | |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
| Category: | |
At Usworth Colliery, Durham, a putter was killed by a runaway tub. Deceased attached his pony and a tracing pony to a full tub to take it up a steep portion of the road and started the ponies. Owing to the cotter being improperly inserted, the limbers became detached and the tub ran back and caught him while he looking for a backstay. He had attached his lamp to the front of the tub and in the darkness had been unable to lay his hand on the backstay as the tub moved off. If the cotter had been put in properly and the backstay attached before starting off, this fatality would not have occurred.
| Source: | 1925 Mines Inspectors Report |
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