Disasters - Names		Disasters - Names

Date:	7th November 1894
Colliery:	Murton
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1

Number 65 on the list occurred at Murton Colliery, on the 7th of November last, about 6 o'clock p.m., causing the death of Thomas Craggs, a landing lad.

He was standing at the back of the full set, in a landing, when the empty set was coming in from the shaft, and the latter got off the way at the landing points and struck the full set, forcing it on to deceased, who was so seriously injured that he died about four hours afterwards.

What caused the set to get off the way could not be ascertained; nothing was done to the way, and after the accident the sets went into the landing satisfactorily, indeed the set which got off was brought back and run in without anything whatever being done, and it did not leave the rails. It seems as if a piece of stone had fallen on to the rails.

Opposite to where deceased was standing there were two refuge holes, and he should have been in one of these when the sets were coming into the landing; he had been told to do so by the officials, and by not attending to these instruction 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.

	Craggs, Thomas, aged 17, Landing Boy, Crushed by set getting of the way, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Murton
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