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| Date: | 3rd August 1905 |
| Colliery: | Shildon Lodge |
| Cause: | Riding on tubs |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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The second case occurred at Shildon Lodge Colliery, belonging to Messrs. Bolckow, Vaughan & Co., Limited, A boy was bringing an empty timber train down an incline having both pair of wheels spragged. Deceased insisted upon getting into the tram though warned not to do so. The sprag in the back pair of wheels broke, and the tram became too heavy for the boy running it to hold back. He lost his light; then tripped and fell. The tram with deceased in it ran wild, and he was fatally injured. This life was thrown away through a breach of the rules.
| Source: | 1905 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2910) |
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Chaplin, Ernest, aged 14, Incline Boy, although told not to do so, he got on to an empty tram which was being run down an incline; sprags were in the wheels, but one broke and the train ran amain and threw him off, breaking his neck | |
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