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Date:	12th July 1902
Colliery:	Middridge
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1

No. 236 on the list occurred at Middridge Colliery, belonging to Messrs. The Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co., Ltd., on July 12, and caused the death of a coal hewer.

This accident occurred on a self-acting incline. It is very narrow on account of its being driven through old workings, and at meetings there is very little space between the tubs and sides. The refuge holes are nine yards apart. The men are allowed to travel on the incline, which is 287 yards in length, when the sets are running, and in this case the deceased man had got into a refuge hole out of the way of the empty set, and appears to have forgotten about the full set coming down, and got out of the refuge bole as soon as the empty set passed, and was caught and killed.

The manager, on his attention being drawn to the danger of men being allowed to travel when the sets were running, promised that in future they should not be allowed to do so.

Source:

1902 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1590)

	Anderson, John, aged 57, Hewer, he got into a refuge hole to let the empty set pass him, on a self-acting incline, but stepped out before the full set passed, and was caught and killed
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