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| Date: | 1st April 1903 |
| Colliery: | Murton |
| Cause: | Run over by trams and tubs |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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No. 148 on the list occurred at Murton Colliery, belonging to Messrs. the South Hetton Coal Company, Limited, on the 1st of April, and caused the death of a driver. At the time of the accident the deceased boy was travelling out-bye on the engine plane, on account of it being the day on which he got his short shift to comply with the requirements of the Coal Mines Act as to the number of hours a boy may be employed in a week, and was close to the shaft when he met the empty set going in-bye, and was caught and killed by it. At the place where the accident happened there was plenty of space, and the refuge holes were well within the distance required by the Act. Previous to this he had only worked six days underground, and on those days he had always had the company of men or other lads, and he may, when he met the set, have stepped in between the rails on which the set was running, or lost his light. The manager arranged that in future, at least for a fortnight after boys commence to work down the pit, they shall not travel on the engine planes alone. This is a wise and very desirable precaution to take, and I hope, where it is not already done, it will be followed at other mines.
| 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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Bartlett, Arthur B., aged 13, Driver, when walking out-bye, on engine plane, he was caught by the empty set and killed | |
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