Disasters - Names		Disasters - Names

Date:	27th January 1905
Colliery:	Brayton Domain
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1

Deceased and two other miners, before descending the shaft, were sitting in a wooden carriage shed with a corrugated iron roof at the end of the storehouse, where they were in the habit of leaving part of their clothes. A right-angled elbow-pipe of a cast iron sludge pipe, 4 inches diameter, was buried about 18 inches near the open end of the shed. This pipe led from a range of eight Lancashire boilers pressed up to 70 lbs., and discharged into a tank, and was said to have an even fall from the boilers to the tank. When the first sludging for the day was done, the elbow-pipe fractured, and a piece of it, about 9 inches long and 3½ inches wide, was blown out. Steam begun to come through the ground, and eventually filled the shed. The men were not much alarmed, and could all have escaped easily at first, but deceased seems to have delayed, and eventually probably became confused, and was so scalded that he died the same day. The piece of displaced pipe has a minimum thickness of 7/32nd of an inch, and the casting seemed a good one. The elbow-pipe was protected by brick walls covered by a metal plate

Source:

1905 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2910)

	Henderson, William Ritson, aged 38, Hewer
	All names found

 

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