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Date:	5th December 1899
Colliery:	Lingdale (Ironstone)
Cause:	Fall of roof or side
Lives Lost:	1

No. 463 on the list occurred at Lingdale Mines, belonging to Messrs. Pease and Partners, Ltd., on December 5th, and caused the death of a miner.

The deputy, on making an examination of the place where this accident occurred, found a slip in the roof; and therefore took some 9-feet props and put one end of them over the baulk that was already in, and wedged them in order to support the stone, in which the slip was, until he could get another baulk in under it. He then cut a hole on one side of the place to put the end of the new baulk in, but could not get the other one cut until some of the side stone was shot off. He, therefore, told the deceased man to drill a hole to do this. He did so, charged and fired it, and on returning to the place afterwards the stone, in which the slip was, fell upon and killed him.

It transpired afterwards that the shot had displaced the wedging of the props placed over the last baulk and loosened them, or the stone could not have fallen.

The deceased man does not appear to have returned to the shot as cautiously as he might have done, or he would have seen that the props were loose and consequently dangerous.

Source:

1899 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 134), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.

	Featherstone, John, aged 46, Miner, The deputy had cut a baulk hole and was waiting for deceased to take a shot off preparatory to cutting the hole on the opposite side. The shot was fired and deceased went into the place, when a piece of stone fell from roof and killed him., Buried: Skelton in Cleveland, All Saints on 08 Dec 1899 {NBI}
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