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Date:	7th April 1906
Colliery:	Hummerbeck
Cause:	Fell down shaft
Lives Lost:	1

The fourth case occurred on April 7th at Hummerbeck Colliery, belonging to Mr. Thomas Boddy, and caused the death of a hewer. Four men were riding in the cage and on its arrival at bank, three stepped out and the fourth was doing so when the engineman lowered the cage two or three feet, and the man's head was caught between the flat sheets and the top rim of the cage. No signal was given to the engineman, but he asserted at the inquest that he received one. The case was a bad one, and would not have occurred if the shaft had been fitted with "keps."

Source:

1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449)

	Hutchinson, James Ernest, aged 21, Hewer, When about to get out of the cage on its arrival at bank it was lowered, and his head was caught between the cage and the flatsheets. The cage was then raised and he fell down the pit., Buried: St. Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Middleton-in-Teesdale
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