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| Date: | 5th July 1858 |
| Colliery: | Ryhope |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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| Description | |
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The accident No. 42 in the list caused the death of a sinker in the new pit which is being sunk near to Ryhope. The sinkers were working on a cradle at some distance up the shaft, and at the same time, water was being drawn in a large tub from the bottom of the shaft through an opening in the cradle, and thence to the surface. The deceased was seen to fall through the hole while walking across the cradle, and it was a long time before his body was recovered out of the water into which he fell, and life was then extinct.
No. 42 accident appears to have arisen from the rare practice of drawing water through an opening in a cradle on which workmen are employed, and I consider that there ought to have been an elevated fence around the hole, to prevent the workmen on the cradle falling through it.
| Source: | 1858 Mines Inspectors Report |
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Bevedon, Thomas, aged 36, Sinker, fell down shaft through a hole in the cradle | |
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