Disasters - Names		Disasters - Names

Date:	5th August 1897
Colliery:	Lumpsey (Ironstone)
Cause:	On inclined and engine planes
Lives Lost:	1

No. 335 on the list occurred at Lumpsey Mines, belonging to Messrs. Bell Brothers, Limited, on the 5th of August, causing the death of a waggon way man.

There was nothing wrong with the place or the appliances where this accident occurred.

The deceased man was cleaning out a roller box on a self-acting incline above where the sets pass each other, and the full set of six tubs in coming down caught and so severely injured him that he died two days afterwards,

He must have forgotten that he was on the top side of meetings, and therefore have thought that the empty set had to pass him before he had to get out of the way to allow the full set to pass.

He had worked for many years as a waggon way man and knew the place quite well so it seems probable that he had been thinking of something else and forgotten about the set.

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.

	Yeoman, Thomas, aged 35, Waggonwayman, Badly cut about the thigh by set when working on engine plane. He appears to have forgotten about the set, as he was opposite a refuge hole. Died on the 7th
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