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| Date: | 30th March 1881 |
| Colliery: | Elswick |
| Cause: | Bursting of steam pipe |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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This occurred in an underground engine house. Steam for the engine is supplied by pipes from the surface, the "shut off" valve of which had been opened by deceased, when the pipes burst, the hot steam and water issuing therefrom causing his death, the only means of egress from the engine-house being the drift in which the fractured pipe was placed. The pipe showed a defect at the fracture, being somewhat honeycombed in the casting, and there had probably been water from condensation standing in the pipes. This case shows that wherever possible, and for other emergencies than the breakage of steam pipe, there should be a separate means of exit from an engine-house than that in which the steam pipes, hauling ropes, &e. are placed.
| Source: | 1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241) |
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Tweddell, Joseph, aged 30, Engineman, bursting of steam pipe | |
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