Disasters - Names		Disasters - Names

Date:	28th April 1881
Colliery:	Lumpsey (Ironstone)
Cause:	Fell off scaffold
Lives Lost:	1

No. 11 on the list occurred at a sinking pit at Lumpsey Mine ; Thomas Blewitt, a sinker, while working on a cradle with several others, slipped and fell through a hole, about 20 inches by 18 inches, by the side of one of the sets of pumps, a distance of 60 feet, and was killed ; he had worked on the cradle in the same state for three weeks, there was plenty of lights, but unfortunately Blewitt was blind in one eye ; the cradle was not as close as it could have been made, and the jury recommended that a plank should be placed alongside the pumps to reduce the size of the openings.

Source:

1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241)

	Blewitt, Thomas, aged 32, Sinker, fell of scaffold into sump about 10 fathoms, while putting in tubbing, Buried: St. Margaret's Church, Brotton on 01 May 1881 {NBI}
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