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| Date: | 29th January 1898 |
| Colliery: | Carlin How |
| Cause: | By explosives |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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No. 52 on the list occurred at Carlin How Mines, belonging to Messrs. Bell Brothers, Limited, on January 29th, causing the death of a miner.
Deceased was putting in compressed powder into a shot-hole with a composition stemmer and the charge exploded, and he was so severely burned that he afterwards died.
This case was a distinct breach of Special Rule No. 60 of the Cleveland Ironstone Mines Rules, which requires that the powder shall be pushed into the hole with a wooden stemmer. It is to be regretted that this man broke this rule, established for his own safety, and that by doing so he lost his life.
| 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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Hill, Isaac, aged 30, Miner, when charging a hole with powder he was pushing the third pellet with a brass stemmer, when the charge exploded, and this ignited the powder in his box, and he was so severely burnt about his face, chest, and arms, that he died on February 1st; he should have been using a wooden stemmer | |
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