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| Date: | 13th November 1935 |
| Colliery: | Thrislington |
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| Cause: | By machinery |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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A driver, aged 15, was killed at Thrislington Colliery, Durham He was pony driving to the loading end of a trunk belt conveyor on a steel-arched roadway seven feet high and lighted with fixed electric lamps. It is presumed that he was attempting to get a token off the steel casing covering the lower and returning portion of the belt, when his arm was drawn on to the belt return drum. He was fatally injured. The drum was fenced with a sheet-iron plate 20 inches high and 2 ft. 3 in. long. To touch the drum he put his arm through an aperture 11 inches by one foot and reached behind the fence a distance of 1 ft. 3 in. With a view to averting a similar accident an expanded metal cradle was fixed over the belt for several yards next the delivery end. The fencing of conveying machinery is referred to elsewhere in this report.
| Source: | 1935 Mines Inspectors Report |
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 | Owens, James Heslington, aged 15, Pony Driver, caught by belt, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Cornforth |
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