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Date:  30th August 1906
Colliery:  Dean & Chapter
Cause:  By machinery
Lives Lost:  1

Description

The third occurred at the Dean and Chapter Colliery, belonging to Messrs. Bolckow, Vaughan, & Co., Limited, on 30th August. Whilst attending to a grease cup on the bearings of a revolving shaft a stud on the collar of the shaft caught in the man s clothing and whirled him round and round. His arm was torn off and the clothes stripped off his body. He was thrown then into a truck beneath.

Source: 1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449)

Fatalities

 

Sample, George Arthur, aged 33, Greaser, When oiling the bearings of a revolving shaft, his sleeve was caught by a stud, and he was whirled round and round, and then thrown into a truck. He died the same day in hospital., Buried: Rock Road Cemetery, Spennymoor

 
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