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| Date: | 13th February 1894 |
| Colliery: | Brancepeth |
| Cause: | Fall of stone |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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Number 8 on the list occurred at Brancepeth Colliery on the 13th February last, about 1.30 o'clock p.m., causing the death of Henry Gray, a coal hewer.
Deceased was working in a broken jud, alongside a lift, out of which all the timber had been drawn, but it had not fallen. There was a slip running through the stone, forming the roof of the old lift and also the place he was working in, and during the shift the stone in the old place commenced to fall and came right across his place, canting out the timber and chocks set for his protection. In an ordinary way, when the stone fell, it broke off at the timber set for the purpose, but the presence of the slip, in this case, caused it to cant the timber out and let the stone on to deceased, and it killed him instantly.
This is another case of a fall of roof, caused by slips, resulting fatally, and my remarks on the preceding accident are quite as applicable to it.
| Source: | 1894 Mines Inspectors Report (C 7667), 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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Gray, Henry, aged 29, Hewer, Fall of stone, in a lift, from a slip; the fracture was caused by the working of a previous lift, and the fall was quite unexpected. | |
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