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| Date: | 18th February 1908 |
| Colliery: | Portland, No. 15 |
| Company: | Portland Colliery Co., Ltd. |
| Cause: | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust |
| Lives Lost: | 4 |
| Category: | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust |
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 | Black, Richard, aged 27, Miner, Either a premature explosion of gelignite killed the fireman and ignited an accumulation of gas in the unventilated workings adjoining the place where they were working and caused the death of the other three men, or one of their naked lights first ignited the gas, causing an explosion, and also lighted the gelignite which was apparently in the fireman's hands |
| | Black, Robert, aged 51, Miner, Either a premature explosion of gelignite killed the fireman and ignited an accumulation of gas in the unventilated workings adjoining the place where they were working and caused the death of the other three men, or one of their naked lights first ignited the gas, causing an explosion, and also lighted the gelignite which was apparently in the fireman's hands |
| | Black, William, aged 17, Drawer, Either a premature explosion of gelignite killed the fireman and ignited an accumulation of gas in the unventilated workings adjoining the place where they were working and caused the death of the other three men, or one of their naked lights first ignited the gas, causing an explosion, and also lighted the gelignite which was apparently in the fireman's hands |
| | Livingstone, John, aged 45, Fireman, Either a premature explosion of gelignite killed the fireman and ignited an accumulation of gas in the unventilated workings adjoining the place where they were working and caused the death of the other three men, or one of their naked lights first ignited the gas, causing an explosion, and also lighted the gelignite which was apparently in the fireman's hands |
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