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| Date: | 9th June 1904 |
| Colliery: | Broomhill |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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Deceased worked in a stenton in the Main seam, which had during the fore shift been holed at the left side into a crosscut, and while deceased was completing the holing a slab of top coal, 4½ feet by 4 feet and about a foot thock, fell upon him. The deputy had been in the place an hour before and set a pair of gears as near the face in the stenton as the top coal would allow, and also a pair of gears in the crosscut, and there was a good supply of loose timber close at hand. Deceased had fired either one or two shots in the coal below the top coal during his shift, which may have shaken it. The Local Inspectors examined the place and stated at the inquest that they considered the occurrence a pure accident
| Source: | 1904 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2506) |
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Gillon, Charles, aged 33, Hewer | |
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