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| Date: | 9th March 1905 |
| Colliery: | Bigrigg (Iron Ore) |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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Deceased and another miner, who was seriously injured, were driving a stone drift 6 feet wide by 6 feet high, and were using Nobel's Gelignite and No. 5 Detonators. Two shots were successfully fired, and then two others were charged and the fuses lit. There were two reports but one was faint, and may have been due to the detonation of the cap only. They waited half-an-hour, thinking the Gelignite of the shot that had made the faint report might be burning and filling the place with fumes, as had occurred the week before. When they returned, deceased went first, the injured man following with a pick, and he had just got to the face when the second shot exploded; he was not able to say what deceased was doing at the moment of the explosion. When the drift was examined after the accident, a hammer with the shaft damaged was found 24 feet from the face, and 12 feet further out was a broken steel jumper or drill, which makes it probable that deceased had been unramming the shot
| Source: | 1905 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2910) |
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Simpson, William, aged 69, Miner | |
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