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| Date: | 17th November 1898 |
| Colliery: | Newfield |
| Cause: | In Shaft |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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No. 518 on the list occurred at Newfield Colliery, belonging to Bolckow, Vaughan, & Co., Ltd., on November 17th, causing the death of a boy who was employed uncoupling tubs at the shaft,
Some tubs of coals from a drift close by had to be raised from the level of ground to the heapstead, and the onsetter and this boy sent them up with the cage, and four empty tubs were being brought from the heapstead to the ground level, and deceased assisted to take them out of the cage. After two had been sent down, some one shouted "that is all," and the deceased boy got into the cage thinking it would be going down the shaft to where his work was, but instead of doing that the cage was taken up, and directly he found it was ascending he attempted to jump out, and in doing so he caught a fence rail and was thrown into the shaft, and he fell to the bottom and was killed.
He was wrong in getting into the cage when he did, as the signal had been given for it to be taken up when he rushed in, but having got in if he had remained where he was, he would have been quite safe and able to get out at the heapstead level.
| 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. |
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Featherstone, Matthew, aged 15, Uncoupling Tubs at Shaft, skull and arm fractured by falling down the shaft; died the following day | |
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