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19th March, 1958.
The Right Honourable Lord Mills, K.B.E.,
Minister of Power.
MY LORD,
INTRODUCTION
In accordance with your direction given under the terms of Section 121 of the Mines and Quarries Act, 1954, I beg to report on the causes of, and the circumstances attending, the explosion which occurred in the Lower Three Quarters Main Drift at Risehow Colliery in the county of Cumberland at 8.50 p.m. in the Afternoon shift of 26th November, 1957, when two persons were killed and one other was injured.
On 7th January, 1958, Mr. I. M. Banner Mendus, one of H.M. Coroners for the county of Cumberland, sitting with a jury of eight men, resumed and concluded the holding of an exhaustive Inquest on the bodies of the two deceased persons and recorded a verdict of Accidental Death in each case. On that day I attended the Inquest and I welcome this opportunity of expressing my appreciation and thanks to H.M. Coroner for the courteous assistance afforded to myself, and other parties, in regard to the examination of witnesses.
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