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Date:	18th November 1896
Colliery:	Eston (Ironstone)
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1

No. 525 on the list occurred at Eaton Mines, belonging to Bolckow, Vaughan, & Co., Limited, on November 18th, causing the death of a miner.

The place this man was working in had just holed into another, and there was an opening of about 4 feet square between them. A shot was fired, and a piece of stone fell near this opening, and on returning deceased removed this and was looking through the hole when a piece of stone fell off the face on to him with fatal results.

He should have been more careful in his examination of the place after firing a shot; it is most likely if he had been he would have found that the stone, which afterwards fell and killed him, was unsafe, and could have removed it.

Source:

1896 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8450), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.

	Elliott, Robert, aged 57, Miner, He had fired a shot which made a holing into another place, and without making an examination, entered the place and was looking through the hole when a large piece of stone fell from the face and killed him instantly
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