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| Date: | 8th July 1905 |
| Colliery: | Dinnington |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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A pit, 15½ feet diameter, was being refitted both as regards surface arrangements and guides in the pit. While these operations were going on there was a temporary fence round it and beams were also laid across. On the day of the accident deceased gave instructions to put in the box cradle, measuring 7½ feet by 3¼ feet, so that the shaftmen could descend to tighten up two joints in a range of steam pipes in the pit which were leaking, and also caused the steam to be admitted to the pipes so that the leaking joints could be located. Three beams were removed and the shaftmen were busy connecting the cradle with the jack engine rope when deceased walked forward and fell into the shaft near where a guide bunton crossed it; he attempted to save himself by clutching a man's legs who was standing with one foot on the bunton and the other on one of the crossbeams. Some steam, due to the leaking joints, was coming up the shaft and may have obscured his view, He fell 36 fathoms on to a "picture" or planking placed in the shaft to protect the onsetters from shaft water, where he was found not dead but almost unconscious. He died in a few minutes after being brought to the surface
| Source: | 1905 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2910) |
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Corby, Joseph, aged 53, Foreman Enginewright | |
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