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| Date: | 9th May 1890 |
| Colliery: | Shildon Lodge |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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No. 21 an the list also occurred at Shildon Lodge Colliery, belonging to Bolckow, Vaughan, & Co., Limited, on the 9th May about 2.30 o'clock p.m., causing the death of Joseph Anderson.
The accident occurred in a stone drift, and was no doubt caused by forcing a cartridge of powder into a hole of insufficient size, as the shot exploded whilst he was stemming the hole and brought the stone on to deceased. Everything has been done that can be to impress upon men, using powder, how dangerous it is to use any force, as the friction set up at once ignites the charge, but still these accidents happen. In doing this they are acting contrary to one of the General Rules.
| Source: | 1890 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6346), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian. |
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Anderson, Joseph, aged 48, Stoneman, while in the act of stemming a hole charged with powder it exploded burning him severely | |
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