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Date:	20th March 1896
Colliery:	Longacres (Ironstone)
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1

No. 146 on the list occurred at Long Acres Mine, belonging to Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co., Limited, on the 20th of March, and caused the death of a deputy.

He and another deputy went into an airway to renew some timber, and while doing so lost their lights; they were trying to get back to where they could get the lamps re-lighted, when the deceased man lost his way and got into some stythe near an old goaf, and was overcome by it, and when found was quite dead.

The other deputy found his way all right and took no harm. Deceased, in the dark, had not realised that he was going in the opposite direction to the one where he could get another light.

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.

	Hodgson, William, aged 43, Deputy, While he and another deputy were repairing an old airway a fall took place and put their lights out. Deceased lost his way and got into some "stythe" and was suffocated
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