Hazon, Thomas, aged 36, Shaftman, while employed renewing and repairing the timber in a shaft which had been deepened from the Beaumont to the Brockwell seam, they were suddenly precipitated down the shaft owing to a side "bunton" giving way which was partly supporting the temporary scaffold upon which they were working ; an examination afterwards proved that this bunton was only secured to the deals by a nail, after the men had sawn through the wooden guide to which the bunton had been bolted ; they had been repeatedly warned to examine the buntons on which the scaffold was placed, and also to use a check scaffold six feet below, but they do not appear to have adopted the latter precaution in this case

Oliver, John Hunter, aged 35, Deputy, while employed renewing and repairing the timber in a shaft which had been deepened from the Beaumont to the Brockwell seam, they were suddenly precipitated down the shaft owing to a side "bunton" giving way which was partly supporting the temporary scaffold upon which they were working ; an examination afterwards proved that this bunton was only secured to the deals by a nail, after the men had sawn through the wooden guide to which the bunton had been bolted ; they had been repeatedly warned to examine the buntons on which the scaffold was placed, and also to use a check scaffold six feet below, but they do not appear to have adopted the latter precaution in this case