| Date: | 1930 |
| Colliery: | Ravensworth, Shop |
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| Cause: | By machinery |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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At Ravensworth Shop Colliery, Durham, a tippler lad was caught and whirled round the main driving shaft of the screening plant and sustained injuries from which he died 5 days later. The shaft was 3 feet below the flooring of the top deck and 8 feet 6 inches above the lower deck of the heapstead. The normal approach to it was from the lower deck and the shaft was guarded on its lower side by steel sheets. It was the end of the shift and deceased was leaving his work on the top deck to go home. No one witnessed the accident. How he came to be caught was a mystery as there was no proper approach to the shaft from the top deck. His proper means of egress would have taken him in the opposite direction. To reach the shaft he must have climbed over a wood rail fence and attempted to reach the lower deck by clambering down the framework of the heapstead. It was after nightfall and why he took that route remains unsolved.
| Source: | 1930 Mines Inspectors Report |
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