| Date: | 1936 |
| Colliery: | Horden |
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| Cause: | Hit by tubs |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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A landing lad, aged 14, was killed at Horden Colliery, Durham. A main and tail set of 40 empty tubs was hauled inbye along a straight-in landing and collided with 12 full tubs standing there. The full tubs were pushed inbye some 15 yards and struck the lad who died later from a fracture of the base of the skull. The accident was caused by an offtakes lad leaving the ropes connected for this landing and failing to isolate the electrical signalling circuit of the left-hand landing before he left the offtakes to go to the right-hand landing for the purpose of seeing how many full tubs were there. The empty set had been standing just outbye the offtakes when the engineman received from the left-hand landing a signal to haul inbye. He did so under the impression that he was taking the set into this landing, which was 370 yards farther inbye than the straight-in landing. Both lads were safety trained.
| Source: | 1936 Mines Inspectors Report |
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