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| Date: | 8th August 1906 |
| Colliery: | Harrington |
| Cause: | Fall of stone |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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Deceased and another hewer were working together in a longwall face 13 yards wide, fast on both sides, going to the rise at 1 in 9 alongside a pillar of coal left to protect a main road in the Swamp section of the Six Quarters band, 3 feet thick, of No. 9 pit. They were in the afternoon shift, and, after working an hour and 20 minutes, a blue metal stone, 9 feet long, parallel to the face, 2½ feet wide and 14 inches thick, fell from the roof close to the face opposite the road-head, relieved by a glassy slip lying forward along the face, a joint parallel to it and joints at each end. The roof in the road had been brushed the night before and the packs were about a yard from the coal. The fall may have canted a prop. There was sufficient loose timber lying close by and a good deal set in the place. Deceased appears to have caught his lamp up when he heard the stone working, and this may have delayed his escape, or he may have come in contact with a prop. The deputy had examined the place half-an-hour before the men started work in the afternoon shift and it then appeared safe.
| 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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Ashworth, Thomas, aged 58, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone | |
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