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| Date: | 26th May 1904 |
| Colliery: | Trimdon Grange |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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Number 198 on the list occurred at Trimdon Grange Colliery, belonging to Messrs. Walter Scott, Ltd., on the 26th May, and caused the death of a deputy.
This accident occurred on a self-acting incline, in the Harvey Seam, which is about 450 yards long. Sets of 12 full and 12 empty tubs were run at one time and there were two lads at the top whose duties were, in one case to brake the sets down and in the other to drive a pony in the lauding, pull the rope over just above where the sets passed each other, and attend to a chock. The deceased man was travelling down this incline and when the set started he got into a refuge hole and stopped in it until the set passed him, he then came out and was going down the incline when three full tubs ran amain and caught and fatally injured him.
It appeared when the boy went down to pull the rope over he and the other boy at the brake arranged that he should not come back but wait till the sets had been run and then pull the rope over and come back and thus save a journey; in consequence of this the chock, to prevent the tubs passing a certain place in the landing, was not put into position as soon as the set passed it, as it should have been, and in the meantime three tubs with four sprags in the wheels had been brought out from the face by the putters and were standing at the top of the landing when another followed, brought by another putter, and it collided with the three and caused them to run through where the chock should have been put in position and down the incline.
If the boys had done the work properly and carefully this accident would not have occurred. They were proceeded against under Special Rule 148 and were fined 5s. and 7s. 6d. costs each.
| Source: | 1904 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2506) |
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Athey, Chrisopher, aged 48, Deputy, he was travelling down a self-acting incline and got into a refuge hole to let the full set pass him, and then came out, when four full tubs came amain, owing to the chock in the landing at the top having been carelessly left open | |
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