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Date:  22nd August 1828
Colliery:  Benwell
Cause:  Rope broke, fell down shaft
Lives Lost:  2

Description

As Ralph Pyle and James Cram were descending the pit at Benwell, the rope unfortunately broke, by which they were precipitated to the bottom, and killed on the spot.

Source: Local Historian's Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences Connected with the Counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham by M.A. Richardson. Published in five volumes in 1844.

Fatalities

  

Cram, James, rope broke, fell down shaft

  

Pyle, Ralph, rope broke, fell down shaft

 
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