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| Date: | 21st October 1908 |
| Colliery: | Talk O' Th' Hill |
| Company: | Talk o' th' Hill Colliery, Ltd. |
| Cause: | Fall of roof |
| Lives Lost: | 2 |
| Category: | Falls in the Mine :: Falls of Roof |
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 | Carter, Charles (died: 22 Oct 1908) , aged 27, Collier, The two deceased and another collier were all at work at the face of a breasting in the Ten Feet Seam. The level behind the face was timbered with 8 ft bars (on legs) at intervals of 2 ft. 6 ins. The sides of the road were formed by continuous chocking 6 ft. wide. At 9 a.m. without the slightest warning about 8 yds. of the roof collapsed and fell to a height of 6 ft. above the ordinary roof level. The fall reached right up to the face and came from three slips, one parallel to the face and one running along either side of the level along the edges of the chocks. Carter was released and removed from the pit about 4 p.m., but it was 2 a.m. on the 22nd before it was possible to rescue the remaining two. None of the three appeared to have been seriously injured except Carter who was suffering from a fractured thigh. The two deceased died from shock and exhaustion early on the following day. The work of rescue was most tedious and attended with considerable danger for a road had to be made over the top of the fall and the debris removed from against the face and carried back to make a passage to the imprisoned men |
| | Shipley, Ralph (died: 22 Oct 1908) , aged 24, Collier, The two deceased and another collier were all at work at the face of a breasting in the Ten Feet Seam. The level behind the face was timbered with 8 ft bars (on legs) at intervals of 2 ft. 6 ins. The sides of the road were formed by continuous chocking 6 ft. wide. At 9 a.m. without the slightest warning about 8 yds. of the roof collapsed and fell to a height of 6 ft. above the ordinary roof level. The fall reached right up to the face and came from three slips, one parallel to the face and one running along either side of the level along the edges of the chocks. Carter was released and removed from the pit about 4 p.m., but it was 2 a.m. on the 22nd before it was possible to rescue the remaining two. None of the three appeared to have been seriously injured except Carter who was suffering from a fractured thigh. The two deceased died from shock and exhaustion early on the following day. The work of rescue was most tedious and attended with considerable danger for a road had to be made over the top of the fall and the debris removed from against the face and carried back to make a passage to the imprisoned men |
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