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Date:	19th March 1901
Colliery:	Charlaw
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1

No. 106 on the list occurred at Charlaw Colliery, belonging to Messrs. The Charlaw and Sacriston Collieries Co., Ltd., on March 19th, and caused the death of a landing lad.

The deceased boy was employed to attend to a landing, and should not have, unless told to do so by the waggon wayman or other official, have left it, but on the day in question he had gone in-bye to a siding and got on to the first tub of a full set, beside the driver to ride out to the landing, and when just coming into the landing the tub upended, and he was crushed between it and the side of the road.

It is probable that the driver had been making his pony travel quickly and suddenly stopped him, and this had caused the tub to up-end as nothing was afterwards found to be wrong with the way or the tub, and the latter did not even get off the rails.

I know it is very difficult to stop boys riding in this way ; they are usually very anxious to drive ponies and to ride on sets, and unless very strictly watched and punished if caught riding, they will indulge in what this accident proves to be a dangerous practice.

Source:

1901 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1062), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian

	Golden, Martin, aged 13, Landing Lad, he went in-bye from landing to driver's siding and met the driver there; he then got, illegally, into the driver's set, the tub on which he was riding up-ended, and he was thrown off and jammed between tub and side, sustaining fatal injuries, Buried: St. Bede's (R.C.) Churchyard, Sacriston
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