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| Date: | 11th October 1860 |
| Colliery: | St. John's |
| Company: | Burnley's executors |
| Cause: | Fall of coal in the mine |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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Accidents Nos. 28, 31, and 35 in the Tabular List.
Falls of roof at St. John's Colliery, near Wakefield, and at Neville Hill and Waterloo Collieries, near Leeds.
These sad events were clearly traceable to forgetfulness, dilatoriness, or disobedience on the part of the unfortunate sufferers themselves ; who omitted to set, at the right time and in the right place, sufficient props to support the overhanging roof, and suitable "sprags" to prevent the undermined coal from falling unexpectedly.
It is the custom in this district for the coal-hewer to perform these essential duties for himself, and it too frequently happens that he ignorantly or perversely delays their execution until fatal results occur.
Seeing that two-fifths of the deaths in the Yorkshire collieries last year proceeded from falls of roof and coal, it certainly becomes imperative on every underground agent to exercise still greater vigilance and firmness in his supervision and direction of workmen with respect to the timbering arrangements alluded to ; and by so doing, he may ultimately be successful in teaching brave but sometimes thoughtless miners how to save their own lives and limbs.
Source: 1860 Mines Inspectors Report, Yorkshire District, by Charles Morton, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 7
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