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| Date: | 15th November 1894 |
| Colliery: | Carricks (metalliferous) |
| Cause: | Fall of stone |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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Number 4 on the same list occurred at Carrick's Iron Ore Mine on the 15th of November about 1 o'clock p.m., causing the death of Thomas Hodgson, a miner.
It appears a shot had been fired and this displaced a stone, which had been covering a clay back or parting in the stone above; as soon as this happened, the support having been taken away, a large stone fell upon the deceased man without any warning and killed him. He had examined the stone, both with a light and by sounding it, and thought it was quite safe.
The treacherous clay back, surrounding the stone which fell, was the cause of this unfortunate accident; it is precisely of the same character as number 1 on this list, and my remarks thereon apply with equal fitness to this case.
| 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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Hodgson, Thomas, aged 48, Miner, Fall of ironstone from the roof | |
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