| Date: | 1933 |
| Colliery: | Cowpen, Mill Pit |
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| Cause: | Electric shock |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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A fatality occurred at Cowpen Mill Colliery, Northumberland. Two stonemen were attempting to remove a trailing cable from a gate-end box. While raising the lid of the box, one of them slipped on the wet floor and pushed the lid wide open. At the same time an acetylene lamp, which he was holding in one hand, touched one of the incoming contacts and he received an electric shock which proved fatal. The guard, which should shield the "live" contact was missing, and thus General Regulation 127 (iv) was contravened. Work of this nature should only be done by persons authorized to operate electrical apparatus.
| Source: | 1933 Mines Inspectors Report |
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