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Date:	22nd February 1898
Colliery:	Kilton (Ironstone)
Cause:	In Shaft
Lives Lost:	1

No. 91 on the list occurred at Kilton Mines, belonging to Messrs. Walker, Maynard, and Company, on February 22nd, causing the death of a sinker.

Deceased, with other men, was employed to re-open the workings at this mine, but, as the cages had not been put into the shaft, the only means of ascending or descending it was in a kibble or a loop. The usual method when a kibble or loop is to be brought up a shaft is for it to be raised up for a short distance, and then stopped and steadied before being taken away to the surface ; and this is a very necessary precaution, as if they are sent away without being steady they may swing across the shaft and either catch the sides or the timber in it.

In this case deceased came out of the workings to the shaft bottom, and got into a 1oop and shouted "Bend away to bank," and the engineman obeyed his signal ; the loop commenced to swing, and in coming up the shaft the spring hook, at the end of the rope, caught an iron "bunton," which broke the hook and liberated the loop on which deceased was sitting, and he fell to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 486 feet, and was killed.

Deceased lost his life by failing to comply with a well-known rule, and one with which, owing to his occupation — that of a sinker — he would be well acquainted.

Source:

1898 Mines Inspectors Report (C 9264), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian

	Padget, Joseph, aged 38, Sinker, he was riding up the pumping shaft in a loop, and when about 40 fathoms from the surface, he was precipitated on to the scaffold, about 81 fathoms from the surface; the spring hook came in contact with a permanent bunting, and was torn away and the loop was released, Buried: St. Margaret's Church, Brotton on 24 Feb 1898 {NBI}
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