| Date: | 1925 |
| Colliery: | Seaham |
| Company: | |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
| Category: | |
A wagon-man was killed at Seaham Colliery, Durham. There were 13 empty wagons standing in a siding. Deceased lowered the first four under the screens and stopped them at the proper place. He had just uncoupled the first wagon when it was bumped and pushed forward by the nine wagons he had left back in the siding. He overbalanced and fell on the rail. The front wheel of the fourth wagon passed over his body and he died a few hours later. Deceased failed to apply sufficient braking power to the empties left in the siding and they ran amain.
| Source: | 1925 Mines Inspectors Report |
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