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| Date: | 14th June 1905 |
| Colliery: | Walker |
| Cause: | Fall of stone |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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Deceased and another stoneman were taking down a wagonway canch in a road in the Beaumont seam longwall. The road was 3½ feet high and 12 feet wide, and the canch was 3½ feet thick. On starting work at 4.30 p.m. deceased commenced to draw timber under the canch so as to allow a shot to be fired, the hole for which had already been drilled but not charged. He knocked out one of the props under the first pair of gears, about a foot from the lip of the canch, using a mell; standing clear of the canch he attempted to knock out the other prop but was unable to move it; he went forward under the canch and struck it some blows in another direction, when a stone 9 feet by 5½ feet and a foot thick fell upon him, relieved by a parting above and a slip which crossed the road diagonally. The stone in falling appears to have brought some other timber with it. The stone had been examined and jowled by the back shift deputy at 3.20 p.m. The local Inspectors reported in our opinion it was purely accidental and no blame attached to any one.
| Source: | 1905 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2910) |
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Eilbeck, Robert, aged 25, Stoneman, killed by a fall of stone | |
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