Disasters - Names		Disasters - Names

Date:	11th January 1904
Colliery:	Washington
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1

Deceased was hewing in a place the road into which inclined at the rate of 1 in 9. The putter brought an empty tub with his pony to a siding 16 yards from the face and went with his pony to the face and brought away a full tub. When past the empty tub in the siding, he left the pony and full tub and took the empty tub to the face and placed a chock before it. He then followed his pony outbye and heard the full tub, which had become detached from the pony's limbers, coming back; he threw himself clear, and the full tub dashed into the empty tub, forcing it over the chock against the face, and crushed deceased. In dipping places a "cow," or iron bar, 18 inches long, with a link at one end and pointed at the other, is hooked on to the crock of the tub so as to stop it running back should it become detached from the pony's limbers. In this case the putter stated he used the "cow," but that it had not acted. He further said he found the "cow" lying 24 yards from the face after the accident, but Mr. Abbott found a "cow" next day partly buried in coal next the face. The Local Inspecters, while reporting that they thought it a "pure accident," recommended that the "cows" be lengthened to 2 feet, and, instead of a pointed end, be provided with two claws

Source:

1904 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2506)

	Brown, Robert, aged 30, Hewer, crushed by tubs [Sunderland Echo reports: accident - 13 Jan 1904 pg 4]
	All names found

 

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