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| Date: | 6th September 1906 |
| Colliery: | Ashington |
| Cause: | Fall of stone |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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He was working in the cut driven forward, alongside a 6 feet dip hitch, by picks on the right side of a coal cutter face in longwall workings in the 4th south way of the Bothal pit Yard seam. A 3 feet top canch had been taken down in the cut to within a foot of the coal, and pairs of gears were set to the new roof 1½ to 2½ feet apart. He was ridding stone between two planks 2½ feet apart when an irregularly bedded post stone 3 feet 6 inches by 2 feet 6 inches, and varying in thickness up to 11 inches fell from the roof partly over both planks, displacing a prop under the end of one of them, It was relieved by a natural joint, by feather edges and a new break. A small piece of this stone 15 inches by 10 inches by 2½ inches is supposed to have fallen separately and fractured his skull. The chargeman had left him an hour before when everything seemed safe and there was no lack of loose timber. The Local Inspectors in their report simply described the nature of the accident and remarked, "there was plenty of timber of various sizes in the place."
| 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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| Fatalities | |
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Armstrong, John James, aged 35, Stoneman, killed by a fall of stone | |
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