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Date:	12th June 1896
Colliery:	Chester South Moor
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1

No. 275 on the list occurred at Chester South Moor Colliery, belonging to the owners of Waldridge Collieries, causing the death of a driver.

The deceased boy was waiting at a siding at the bottom of an incline for a full set, which another driver had gone in by to bring out, to take it towards the shaft. The other driver had removed the chock in the full way at the flat at the top of the incline, and set three tubs away which came amain down the incline, and when they got to deceased he attempted to stop them but was knocked down and afterwards found under the first tub quite dead.

This accident was caused by the other driver removing the chock, which he should not have done, as it was no part of his duty to do so, a lad being kept at the flat to attend to the chocks, and arrange the sets, and, apart from this, he was wrong in moving it before his pony was attached to the tub.

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.

	Charlton, William, aged 14, Driver, He was waiting for another driver bringing a set of full tubs out but he allowed them to run amain, and Charlton in attempting to stop them got caught and was found quite dead under the first tub, Buried: Ropery Lane Cemetery, Chester-le-Street
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