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| Date: | 17th December 1902 |
| Colliery: | Barrington |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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Deceased and an assistant back overman remained in the pit after the hewers' shift was over to adjust marks ; two stonemen, who were not aware they were in the pit, prepared and lit a shot containing nearly 2 lbs. of gunpowder in a top canch near the face in a road with a pillar of coal on one side and longwall waste on the other ; the air way came on to this road through the pillar of coal close to where the shot was fired, and was fenced off at both ends ; deceased, as an official was in order in using the air way, but the stonemen, as workmen, were not ; the stonemen after lighting the fuse, retired straight outbye crying "fire," and immediately afterwards deceased came through the air way and must have arrived at the shot just as it exploded, and was instantly killed ; the rails were taken up at the place, and this might have warned him.
| Source: | 1902 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1590) |
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Lynn, Robert, aged 50, Back Overman, killed by a shot | |
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