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Minister of Fuel and Power.
SIR,
INTRODUCTORY
In accordance with your direction given under the terms of Section 82 of the Coal Mines Act, 1911, I have investigated the causes of, and circumstances attending, the explosion which occurred at Horden Colliery, County Durham, at 9.15 a.m. on the 23rd March, 1953, when one person was killed and two others injured, and which, during the subsequent recovery operations, was followed five hours later by a second explosion, fortunately without any casualties.
On 5th June, 1953, Mr. T. V. Devey, H.M. Coroner for the Easington Ward of County Durham, sitting with a jury, held an adjourned inquest on the body of Joseph H. Blackburn, the one person who lost his life in the explosion, and found that he was accidentally killed by an explosion underground and that his death Was caused by carbon monoxide poisoning.
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