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| Date: | 27th March 1903 |
| Colliery: | Rosedale, East (Ironstone) |
| Cause: | Run over by trams and tubs |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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No. 137 on the list occurred at Rosedale East Mines, also belonging to the Carlton Iron Co., Ltd., on the 27th March, and caused the death of a rapperman. He was sent to attend to a rapper at a junction and had instructions to stay there until he was relieved by another youth when he was to go in-bye to another place. It is not quite known how the accident happened as no one was within some distance of it, but all the evidence points to his having been illegally riding in-bye on an empty set. There are two lines of rails on the engine plane — one for the full and the other for the empty sets — and the place where the sets pass is about 50 yards on the in-bye side of where he was stationed, and after the accident occurred he was found at this passing place with his meal tin in the first tub of the empty set ; it is supposed that he had seen the light the man who was coming to relieve him was carrying, and to get a ride in he had jumped on the first tub of the empty set and been caught by the full set at the meeting place, either because he had not got properly into the set, or he had been looking back to see if the man who was coming to relieve him had gone to the rapper he had just left. There was no work which necessitated his being on the tubs or where he was afterwards found. He should have waited until he had been relieved, and then walked in by the travelling way to his other work. If he had done this this fatality would not have occurred.
| Source: | 1903 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2119), 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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Agar, Joseph (jr.), aged 21, Rapperman, He was sent to temporarily attend to a rapper on the engine plane. He left the station before being relieved, and by some means, was caught and killed by the set. | |
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