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Date:	25th November 1860
Colliery:	Bonnytown
Company:	Merry and Cunningham
Cause:	Shot firing
Lives Lost:	1
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No. 42 accident, occasioned by an explosion of gunpowder.

The deceased had contracted to drive a narrow coal mine, and I understand that at the time of the accident he had prepared to blast a portion of the coal in it ; the match had not ignited the powder as quickly as was expected, and the unfortunate sufferer went back to examine into the cause of delay, when the explosion suddenly took place, and the contents of the blast was lodged right in his face and body.

This description of accident frequently happens about quarries, mines, and sinking pits, resulting often in lameness and loss of sight. It is of that class which no system of management can correct, the way to prevent them is well known, and if workmen, when a borehole charged with gunpowder misses fire, were to abandon it and commence another at a safe distance, accidents of this character could not by any possibility take place.

Source: 1860 Mines Inspectors Report, by William Alexander, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 144

	Stevenson, Thomas, aged 26, Collier, A "shot" which had hung fire
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