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| Date: | 5th May 1903 |
| Colliery: | New Brancepeth |
| Cause: | By machinery |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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No. 192 on the list occurred at New Brancepeth Colliery, belonging to Messrs. Cochrane & Co., Ltd., on the 5th of May, and caused the death of a belt boy. When his work was finished, instead of going by the proper way he crept under the jigger screen shafting, because it was a short cut, and part of his clothing was caught by the shafting, and he was swung round it and killed.
| 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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Tweddell, Joseph, aged 18, Belt boy, he was employed on a cleaning belt but had left his post and was passing under the jigger screen shafting, when his jacket was caught and he was swung round the shafting and killed; he should not have gone the way he did | |
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