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| Date: | 20th September 1900 |
| Colliery: | Murton |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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No. 352 on the list occurred at Murton Colliery, belonging to Messrs. The South Hetton Coal Company, Limited, on September 20th and caused the death of a coal hewer.
The deceased man was working along with another hewer in a "broken" jud in the main coal seam, which was very nearly holed, and, under these conditions, it is of the greatest importance, as far as safety is concerned, that the top coal should be taken down as the bottom coal is worked out, so that the hewer may never be working under it, as there are breakers in it, and it is liable to fall without the slightest warning. In this ease the top coal had been allowed to get back and was overhanging for about one foot six inches, deceased was hewing under it, when it fell upon and killed him.
It is to be regretted that the top coal was allowed to overhang, had it been kept square with the lower portion of the seam this accident would not have occurred.
| Source: | 1900 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 536), 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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Gallagher, Matthew, aged 37, Hewer, Crushed chest and blow on scalp caused by a fall of coal. | |
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