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Date:	28th June 1906
Colliery:	Murton
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1

On June 28th a Shifter was killed at Murton Colliery, belonging to Messrs. The South Hetton Coal Company, Limited. This man was going inbye to work at the same time as a set was being hauled inbye. He was some way in front of the set, but he decided to wait at the way end (the junction of two roads) and allow the set to pass him. He saw the tail rope was pulling the tubs into one of the two ways, and, knowing this, line simply stood between the ways, expecting the set to pass him. The switch boy, however, had neglected to open the switches for the way into which it was intended the set should go. The result was that the set took the wrong way at the points, and was then pulled across the road by the hauling rope at the point where the deceased was standing, and he was killed. The switch boy was to blame for not having attended to the changing of the points, but the man himself was also to blame for standing where he did. There were refuge holes close to, and he should have gone into one until the set had passed him.

Source:

1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449)

	Mathwin, George G., aged 30, Shifter, He was standing at a way-end waiting of the ingoing set to pass him. The points had not been turned, and the set took the wrong way and ran over him, He ought not to have been standing at the way end, but instead should have gone into a refuge hole. There were two near by.
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