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| Date: | 14th February 1870 |
| Colliery: | Coxhoe |
| Cause: | Fell down shaft |
| Lives Lost: | 4 |
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Repairing furnace shaft. Their partners had been drawn up to the main coal drift, and one of them stepping into the drift he inadvertently caused a piece of iron to fall down the shaft; this, striking the cradle on which the four men were standing, broke two of the hanging chains, and thus caused them to be precipitated to the bottom.
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Alderson, Joseph, aged 29, Sinker, fell down shaft | |
Carter, William, aged 20, Sinker, fell down shaft | |
Huggins, John, aged 40, Sinker, fell down shaft | |
Lindsay, Peter, aged 34, Sinker, fell down shaft, Buried: Shincliffe, St. Mary the Virgin on 17 Feb 1870 {NBI} | |
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