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| Date: | 20th January 1906 |
| Colliery: | Netherton |
| Cause: | Killed by Machinery |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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Deceased, son of the enginewright of the colliery, was employed picking stones from the coal as it was carried past him on a travelling belt. One of the belts was standing, and he was asked by the screen engineman to start it. He did so, after passing a fence, by means of a clutch, and then appears to have stepped on to the belt to ride back to his work, but was caught by a jigger screen, which projected nearly right over the belt, and was jammed between them. The steam was cut off at the engine immediately, but it took some time to liberate him. The belt, 4½ feet wide, travelled at a speed of about 50 feet per minute; it was fitted with angle irons placed 2 feet apart, projecting 1½ inches. There was only 3 feet between the end of the belt where deceased operated the clutch end the jigger screen, which was 5 feet wide, but was cut away to a point at its termination, and deceased, after climbing on to the belt, probably proposed stepping over this pointed end. Between the jigger screen and the belt there was only a few inches. The screen engineman was prosecuted and fined for deputing his duties to another person without authority.
| Source: | 1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian. |
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Dotchin, Percival Hetherington, aged 14, Screener, killed by machinery | |
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