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Date:	13th August 1860
Colliery:	New Brown Moor
Company:	Edward Waud, Esq.
Cause:	Falling down the shaft
Lives Lost:	1
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Accident No. 22 in the Tabular List.

Falling down the shaft at New Brownmoor Colliery, near Leeds.

The deceased boy was gin-driver at a sinking pit belonging to Major Waud ; and at the time when the little fellow was precipitated down the shaft, there were two miners at work in the bottom, which was only nine feet diameter.

Providentially, the poor lad's body fell at their feet without striking either of them ; otherwise, this serious casualty would probably have resulted in more than one death.

The misfortune happened in the night, and when the lights on the pit-top were but dimly burning. The fatal fall was heard though not seen by the banksman ; but as the fencing which usually guarded one side of the shaft, had been temporarily removed, the supposition was that the unfortunate boy had inadvertently stumbled through the opening.

Source: 1860 Mines Inspectors Report, Yorkshire District, by Charles Morton, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 6

	Wilson, E., aged Boy, Falling down the shaft
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