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| Date: | 3rd February 1890 |
| Colliery: | Cleator Moor, No. 5 Pit |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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No. 3 in the list. This accident occurred in Stirling's No. 5 mine on the 6th February, in a very high working, by a piece of ore falling from the roof. From evidence given at the inquest, this piece of ore does not appear to have been sounded for ut least a week, the reason of this being that the place was awkward to get at. Probably if the ore had been sounded it would have been found to have been unsafe.
| 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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Oates, John, aged 36, Miner, fall of iron ore; this accident occurred in a very high working; at the inquest evidence was given that this portion of the roof had not been examined for several days before the accident occurred, the excuse of the officials being that the roof was awkward to get at | |
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