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| Date: | 31st January 1881 |
| Colliery: | East Holywell |
| Cause: | Cage left conductors and tilted up |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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Accident No. 7. This case was probably also to some extent attributable to the formation of ice in the shaft. It was caused by the cage leaving the guides, and tilting up sufficiently to throw deceased out, when he fell to the bottom. The shaft was fairly well fitted up, the cage guides being flat-bottomed rails, a description of fitting which has of late years become somewhat popular in the north of England. These rails were not all of the same section, not were the joints, even where the same section was fixed, in all cases fair, being so much as 1/16 untrue. One joint was loose. It could not however, be positively ascertained what had caused the cage to tilt.
| Source: | 1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241) |
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Hewitson, Thomas, aged 61, Hewer, cage left conductors and tilted up | |
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