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| Date: | 13th July 1967 |
| Colliery: | Cambois |
| Company: | National Coal Board |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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He was working near to the entrance to the Fitting workshops, Cambois Colliery, being a Thursday, machinery which had been earlier overhauled in the workshops was being transported outside the workshops to be loaded up and made ready to go down the pit later that day and then moved to the coal face on the Friday ready for installation over the coming week end. The machinery was being lifted and moved out of the workshops via the use of the internal overhead crane and a mobile crane positioned with its jib just inside the large doorway. As the operation progressed the mobile crane moved outwards and just as the jib was clear of the building, one of the jib support ropes snapped. The jib fell down and ....critically, to one side, striking Norman Wilson (who was not involved with the on-going operation), killing him instantly.
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 | Wilson, Norman, aged 58, Supports Checker, struck by crane jib |
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