| Date: | 1925 |
| Colliery: | Backworth, Algernon |
| Company: | |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
| Category: | |
A pumpman was killed at Backworth Algernon Colliery, Northumberland. He was apparently unscrewing the grease cup on the middle crank of an electrically-driven three-throw pump when his coat tail caught in the improperly fenced moving parts. He was thrown across the adjacent crank, with his head in the crank pit, where it was badly mutilated. He had ignored the posted instruction warning persons not to oil machinery in motion.
| Source: | 1925 Mines Inspectors Report |
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