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| Date: | 13th July 1897 |
| Colliery: | Pease's West (Coke Ovens) |
| Cause: | On surface |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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No. 300 on the list occurred at Pease and Partner's Bankfoot coke ovens, near Crook, on the 13th of July, and caused the death of a boy employed as a dauber.
This was a strange case. A heap of "daub," i.e., clay and loam, for use at the coke ovens was lying in the usual place, and there would be a railway truck full in all. Owing to the dry weather a crust had formed on the outside, and in order to save time and trouble in preparing the clay the boys had burrowed a small hole into the heap to get the damp "daub." Deceased went to this heap to get some "daub" without anyone observing him, and when he was missed it was thought he had gone home, but he was eventually found with a bucket and a trowel, covered with loam. He had gone into the hole that was excavated about three to four feet and the top had fallen on to him. There was not more than three to four inches of stuff on his head and shoulders, but he seems to have been suffocated.
Some men working five or six yards off saw and heard nothing.
| 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. |
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Bentley, Percival, aged 16, Dauber, Suffocated while getting daub (i.e., clay and loam for use at coke ovens) from a heap. He and the other boys had burrowed a hole into the heap to get the damp daub, and when this boy was getting it, the heap fell in | |
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