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| Date: | 22nd February 1904 |
| Colliery: | Broughton Moor |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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After a wagon was filled at the spout at which deceased worked, the next empty wagon was allowed to gravitate against it down a road dipping 1 in 44 so as to give it a start. A chock, semicircular in section, was laid upon one of the rails to stop the empty wagon when in position. There was a distance of 5 feet 9 inches between the line of rails at the spout and the next line of wagon rails, but in this space a tub road had been laid down, and crossing at right angles overhead a coal belt had recently been erected, and two square uprights to carry it were set between the tub road and wagon road, and a wagon at the spout only cleared these uprights by about 4 inches. Although no part of deceased's duty, he appears to have been adjusting the chock while the wagons were moving and his head was caught between the empty wagon and one of the uprights and his neck broken. The uprights should not have been placed so near the rails
| Source: | 1904 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2506) |
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Lynch, John, aged 16 | |
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