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| Date: | 13th October 1933 |
| Colliery: | Bowburn |
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| Cause: | By machinery |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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Accidents by Machinery. There was one fatal accident causing one death. This fatality occurred at Bowburn Colliery, Durham. A belt lad, with 14 weeks' experience on. the screens, crawled through an aperture, 18 inches high by 39 inches wide at floor level, in an expanded metal fence guarding one end of the tension drum and rollers of a rubber-belt conveyor, with the apparent intention of removing an accumulation of coal-dust beneath the drum. His left arm was drawn between a roller and the belt travelling at 180 feet per minute and he was instantly killed. The aperture had been left to facilitate cleaning at week-ends by the chargeman, when the machinery was at a standstill, and a long-handled brush was provided for the purpose. It was no part of deceased's duty to clean inside the fence and he had received instructions not to go anywhere in the close proximity of the machinery whilst it was in motion. Following the accident complete and permanent enclosure of the aperture was at once effected.
| Source: | 1933 Mines Inspectors Report |
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 | Moore, Robert, aged 14, Belt Boy, crushed by belt, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Cornforth |
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