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Date:	25th November 1936
Colliery:	Horden
Company:	Horden Collieries Ltd.
Cause:	Fall of stone
Lives Lost:	1
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A timber drawer was killed at Horden Colliery, Durham. With another workman he had been sent to withdraw timber in an old jud in a brokens district of a seam six feet thick with a mixed post roof and black shale floor. A chock and several props, most of them sunk several inches into the floor, had been removed. Having set temporary supports, he was chopping the head of a prop, preparatory to withdrawing it with a sylvester, when without warning a section of the roof 14 ft. long, 7 ft. 6 in. wide and 8 in. thick, fell from a number of induced breaks. The accident might have been avoided had a wrenching device been used in conjunction with the sylvester to avoid the necessity of cutting the head of the props preparatory to their removal.

Source:

1936 Mines Inspectors Report

	Taylor, W., aged 63, Timber Drawer, killed by a fall of stone
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