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Date:	12th August 1897
Colliery:	Lumpsey (Ironstone)
Cause:	In Shaft
Lives Lost:	1

No. 345 on the list occurred at Lumpsey Mines, belonging to Messrs. Bell Brothers, Ltd., on the 12th of August, causing the death of an onsetter.

This accident was caused by a small piece of ironstone, weighing about 2½ lbs., falling off a tub as it was being taken out of the cage on the surface, and going down the shaft, where it hit the deceased man on the head and killed him instantly.

At the bottom of the shaft there is what is locally known as a "picture" to protect the men from such an accident as this, but there is a small space between it and the cage shoes of about 7 inches, and the stone fell through this. Deceased was in the act of lifting the catch of the descending cage and for the moment was directly under the space between the cage and the "picture" or screen.

Source:

1897 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8819), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian

	Grocott, Leonard, aged 29, Onsetter, He was about to lift the snecks of the cage when a piece of stone weighing about 2½ lbs. fell down the shaft, hit him on the head, and killed him, Buried: St. Margaret's Church, Brotton on 15 Aug 1897 {NBI}
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