| Date: | 1933 |
| Colliery: | Blackhall |
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| Cause: | Fall of Stone |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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Falls of side at the working face accounted for ten deaths. A typical example of the reluctance of some hewers to set holing props or sprags and the placing of too much reliance upon their own judgement is afforded by a fatal accident which occurred at Blackhall Colliery, Durham. The seam was 7 ft. 8 ins, thick, including a seggar band 1 ft. 8 ins, from the floor. Deceased, using a pneumatic pick, allowed the band to overhang the bottom coal without setting sprags, with the result that a piece of band 12 feet long and one foot wide fell from a concealed slip.
| Source: | 1933 Mines Inspectors Report |
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