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| Date: | 3rd November 1854 |
| Colliery: | Shildon Lodge |
| Cause: | Fell from cage |
| Lives Lost: | 2 |
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Overman Samuel Gilroy and deputy James Fairley were coming to bank in the cage at Shildon Lodge Colliery on 3 November, when the drum rope slipped off, jerked the cage, and they were thrown out to the bottom of the shaft. Both men were recovered and taken home Fairley died 6 hours later; Gilroy died 12 hours later. In his annual report, Dunn commented :
The engine, which was temporary, stood at an unusual distance from the shaft; it also turned out that the rope shaft was very imperfectly secured, so that having slid forward at one end, the rope climbed up the horns of the rope-roll and so fell down to the shaft, which had the effect of jerking the two men out of the cage, a third, a little boy, being providentially saved.
The jury brought in a verdict of accidental death, coupled with a caution for better attention to the machinery in the future.
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 | Fairley, James, Deputy, fell from cage |
| | Gilroy, Samuel, Overman, fell from cage |
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Some of the names of mining fatalities on this web site have been kindly provided by
Jim Grainger from his research into early newspapers (primarily the Durham Advertiser
and Durham Chronicle) and are marked with
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