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Date:	13th August 1895
Colliery:	Waterhouses
Cause:	Accident on Surface
Lives Lost:	1

Number 45 on the list occurred at Waterhouses Colliery, on the 13th of August at about 8:30 a.m., causing the death of Benjamin Holmes, a branch horse driver.

Deceased was driving a horse attached to a waggon loaded with coke, and was standing on the front buffers. The waggon was an ordinary tip one, and he had not hold of it, and in passing over a joint in the railway slipped his foothold and fell in front of the waggon, and both wheels on one side passed over the middle of his body, and so severely injured him that he died within five minutes.

Riding on these waggons was prohibited, and deceased should not have been on this one ; by neglecting to carry out the rules he lost his life.

The manager undertook to warn all the men against riding on waggons in future, and as result I hope that there will be no more of this kind of accident to report.

Source:

1895 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8074), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines

	Holmes, Benjamin, aged 44, Horse Driver, while engaged shifting a truck of coke he fell and was run over by the full waggon, Buried: Esh Winning Cemetery
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