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Date:	10th September 1856
Colliery:	Oak Tree
Company:	T. and J. Badger
Cause:	Explosion of firedamp
Lives Lost:	1
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In No. 91 a youth is sacrificed by utter ignorance of the nature of firedamp and of the proper use of the safety lamp :— Five persons engaged in an exploratory work become so terrified at the presence of the gas, that the deputy himself blows violently into his lamp to extinguish it. From the evidence afterwards given, there is reason to believe that the flame by this very act was passed through the gauze and so ignited the surrounding inflammable air. The force of the explosion threw the deceased into the sump, where for an hour or two he was actually forgotten. Such was the state of alarm of his companions that they came up the shaft without ever giving him a thought. His death was occasioned by drowning and not by the actual contact of fire.

Source: 1856 Mines Inspectors Report, by Lionel Brough, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 86

	Fenn, George, aged 16, Explosion of fire, blown into the sump
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