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Date:	3rd November 1936
Colliery:	East Hetton
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Cause:	Hit by tubs
Lives Lost:	1
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A landing lad, aged 15, who had just commenced attendance at a safety class, was killed at East Hetton Colliery, Durham. He had prepared a set of 15 full tubs to be taken outbye from a level landing, 12 feet wide and six feet high, by a main and tail hauler. Before he rapped the set away another five full tubs were brought into the landing and he decided to include these in the set. He took the tail rope from the fifteenth tub, attached the five tubs and replaced the rope on the twentieth tub. The arrangement resulted in about eight yards of slack tail rope which lay on the floor in one or two coils. Standing with the left foot in a coil, he rapped the set outbye by short circuiting the bare signal wires. The haulage started and he was dragged some 260 yards before he was found by a landing boy who stopped the haulage. A bell push was provided at a point four yards inbye from where the boy rapped and on the inbye side of the return wheel. Had the boy used this bell push the accident would have been avoided.

Source:

1936 Mines Inspectors Report

	Hewitson, Matthew (died: 06 Nov 1936) , aged 15, Landing Lad, runaway tubs, Buried: St. Helen's Parish Church/Cemetery, Kelloe
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