Disasters - Names		Disasters - Names

Date:	21st November 1896
Colliery:	Auckland Park
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1

No. 539 on the list occurred at Auckland Park Colliery, belonging to Bolckow, Vaughan, & Co., Limited, on November 24th, causing the death of a stoneman.

The master shifter went to work on the Sunday night with several other men, and proceeded to a place on the main engine plane where some of the roof required taking down, in order to make height. They took out the timber, for the purpose of allowing the stone to fall, when a much larger quantity fell than they anticipated and blocked the road. A large staff of men was started to remove this fall in time for the pit to commence work at six o'clock on the Monday morning, and while this was being done a stone fell and killed the deceased man.

The master shifter said he had gone up on to the top of the large fall frequently while the men were working there, and he thought the stone was quite safe, and that it gave no warning before it fell.

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.

	Armstrong, Thomas, aged 26, Stoneman, While engaged with some other men in ridding a fall of stone on the main road, a piece of stone fell from the roof and killed him
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