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| Date: | 25th September 1905 |
| Colliery: | Hazlerigg |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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Deceased and another stoneman, who was seriously injured, were driving a stone drift 6 feet high and 10 feet wide in wet sandstone; they had drilled a hole about 2 feet deep near the roof, and charged it with ½ pellet of saxonite, and fitted it with detonator and 2 feet 6 inches of gutta-percha fuse. The shots were fired by holding touch paper, which had been ignited by a hot wire heated in the flame of a safety lamp, to the fuse. Deceased remained to fire the shot, his mate and a putter going outbye. As deceased was a long time in lighting up, his mate returned to him, when the shot exploded on them. It is probable that the fuse had been damp and smouldered, and the powder had been ignited unknown to them. A piece of fuse when tested ran 1 foot in 33 seconds. The Local Inspectors reported "it has been a pure accident."
| Source: | 1905 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2910) |
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Ashurst, John, aged 59, Stoneman | |
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