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| Date: | 22nd February 1894 |
| Colliery: | Seaton Moor |
| Cause: | In Shaft |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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The first-mentioned accident, which occurred at the Seaton Moor Colliery, Cumberland, on the 22nd February, resulted in the death of a boiler fireman (brother of the head banksman), who had no business on the pit bank, but it appears that he went there to assist the under-banksman. The fence consisted ot two bars on either side of the shaft, and the lower one had to be removed every time the cage came up, and then replaced. At the inquest it transpired that this lower bar had been fastened up, and when the deceased was pushing an empty tub towards the cage, he pushed it into the open side of the pit instead of on to the cage, and fell down the shaft with it.
| Source: | 1894 Mines Inspectors Report (C 7667), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. L. Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines, copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian. |
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Gate, Jonathan, aged 58, Fireman, It appears that the deceased was pushing an empty tub into a cage, and by some means got to the wrong side of the pit, which had been left unfenced by the banksman, and fell down the shaft [Inspection made & inquest attended] | |
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