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| Date: | 20th July 1894 |
| Colliery: | Charlaw |
| Cause: | Fall of stone |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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Number 43 on the list occurred at Charlaw Colliery, on the 20th of July, about 12.15 o'clock p.m. causing the death of John Green, a coal hewer.
He was working in the brokens, in a jud which was just being turned away. About half an hour before the accident occurred the back-overman visited the place, and told the deputy to set some chocks; and he also told deceased to leave some coal on at the loose end, which he said he would do; this official, however, found, on examining the place afterwards, that a stone had fallen, from the roof; that deceased had not left the coal on, and that the fall was where it should have been; and also that this coal was its only support. The roof before the fall occurred appeared perfectly good and there were no breakers visible, afterwards there were two breakers to be seen, and these caused the accident. Deceased was, I understand, a careful man, and as a rule did all he was told to. Whether he took the coal out, on the loose side, purposely, or he had not understood the back-overman I cannot say, but by taking it out he lost his life.
| 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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Greener, John, aged 39, Screenman, Fall of stone in his working place | |
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