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| Date: | 1929 |
| Colliery: | Challoner |
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| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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The necessity for using a contrivance for the withdrawal of props without requiring firstly to weaken the prop by dinting, chipping, or uncapping, is demonstrated by a fatality to a deputy at Chaloner Mine, Yorkshire. He was using an axe to "chip" a prop 10ft. long and 10ins, diameter set under a baulk supporting a clay roof, preparatory to withdrawing the prop by means of a sylvester, when the prop collapsed and he was killed by a large fall of roof. The use of a device attached to the end of the sylvester chain to enable the pull to exert a twisting force on the prop might have prevented the necessity for chipping the prop and so have avoided the accident.
There are several devices on the market with this object in view. A very simple and effective one, the Gawthorpe Hook, was described last year in the Annual Report for the Yorkshire Division. I drew the attention of many colliery agents and managers to this device and in nearly every instance they agreed to provide it.
| Source: | 1929 Mines Inspectors Report |
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