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Date:	8th October 1924
Colliery:	Exhall
Company:	Exhall Colliery and Brickworks Ltd.
Cause:	Haulage accident
Lives Lost:	1
Category:	Miscellaneous Underground :: Haulage :: Other Haulage Accidents

Exhall Colliery, Warwickshire, 8th October. — One man killed. Deceased was riding out in an empty tub attached to the back of a set of 23 full tubs on a main and tail haulage road. There were two other men with him in the tub. When the set had gone twenty yards from the flat, a jack-catch, controlled by a youth in a manhole 20 yards away, was lowered prematurely. The bottom of the catch fell into the tub and struck deceased, inflicting injuries from which he died on November 14th. There was no light at the jack-catch, and the youth on the flat had to guess when the tubs had passed. At the same time he showed negligence and lack of caution in not waiting until the tubs had passed the catch. Since this accident a light has been placed at the jack-catch.

Source: 1924 Mines Inspectors Report, Midland and Southern Division (No. 8) by H. A. Abbott, H.M. Inspector of Mines [DMM Ref: L-01624 - Tom Bainbridge Collection], Page: 24

	Steele, Gilbert, aged 31, Deputy, Haulage accident
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