Littletown Colliery

Miscellaneous Notes and Incidents

A stoneman was firing a powder shot, and when applying a light to the squib, the shot exploded at once, and he was burnt and bruised about the face and eyes.

Source: 1897 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8819), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.