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| Date: | 15th June 1905 |
| Colliery: | Dinnington |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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Deceased was employed near the shaft receiving and spragging tubs which were automatically detached from an endless rope to which they were attached by clips in sets of two. The road dipped outbye fairly heavily till near the shaft where it flattened to about ¾-inch per yard, it was lighted near the shaft by five incandescent electric lights. The rope was standing at the time of the accident, but just before an empty and full set had caught further inbye, and may have caused a jerk, which appears to have released the clip attaching two full tubs to the rope, and these tubs ran amain and collided with a set in front of them attached to the rope, and it broke away and collided with two full tubs standing free of the rope, both wheels of the first of these tubs was spragged. Deceased heard the runaways, and was crossing in front of the spragged tub when it was struck, and he was caught by it and killed. The clip of the first runaway set was found 60 yards inbye. A recommendation by Mr. Abbott that a refuge hole be made at the point where the lads received the tubs was adopted by the jury. The Local Inspectors reported "in our opinion the accident could not have been foreseen, and no blame attached to anyone."
| Source: | 1905 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2910) |
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Avery, John Robert, aged 14, Tub spragger | |
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