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Date:	9th December 1924
Colliery:	Florence
Company:	Florence Coal and Iron Co., Ltd.
Cause:	Haulage accident
Lives Lost:	1
Category:	Miscellaneous Underground :: Haulage :: Run over or crushed by trams or tubs

Florence Colliery, North Stafford, 9th December. — The deceased person was working on the dip side of a longwall breasting face inclined at 1 in 5. A compressed air engine was used to draw up the full tubs, the rope working round two pulleys. He had just sent a full tub away when the rope came out of one of the pulleys and allowed the tub to run back about 6 yards and strike him, causing fatal injuries. The cotter pin in the spindle of the pulley had been lost a short time previously on the same shift, and as a substitute for this a nail was said to have been used, but, although a careful search was ihade after the accident, no trace could be found of the nail, and it is open to question whether one was used or not. Again the deceased put the drag on the tub upside down, and this may have prevented it coming into operation when it should have done. Also he stood immediately behind the tub whilst it was being drawn up ; this on a gradient of 1 in 4½ was a very unwise thing to do. To prevent the tub running back in the event of the rope coming out of the pulley or the anchor prop, to which it was attached, failing, an additional safeguard might have been provided by setting a prop in front of the pulley and between the ropes.

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

	Johnson, Albert, aged 25, Loader, Haulage accident
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