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| Date: | 12th May 1890 |
| Colliery: | Cleator, Glebe Pits |
| Cause: | Fall of stone |
| Lives Lost: | 2 |
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No. 5 in the list. This was an accident by a fall of stone. The stone, it appears, was known to be bad on the Saturday, and on the following Monday morning, about 7 o'clock, the two deceased were told by the overman to take it down. The overman does not appear, although he knew the dangerous state of the stone, to have visited the place again to see that this was done, for at 11.30 the stone fell and killed both men who were working under it.
| Source: | 1890 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6346), Newcastle District (No. 3) by James Willis, H.M. Inspector of Mines, copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian. |
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Cullinder, John, aged 58, Miner, fall of stone; the piece of stone that fell was examined by the overman at 7 am. on the day of the accident, and finding it very bad he ordered Cullender to take it down; Cullender did not do so, and allowed Irving to work under it; about 11.30 a.m. it fell and killed both the men; the overman did not go to see his orders were obeyed, although the place was only a short distance from the shaft | |
Irving, William, aged 20, Trailer, fall of stone; the piece of stone that fell was examined by the overman at 7 am. on the day of the accident, and finding it very bad he ordered Cullender to take it down; Cullender did not do so, and allowed Irving to work under it; about 11.30 a.m. it fell and killed both the men; the overman did not go to see his orders were obeyed, although the place was only a short distance from the shaft | |
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