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Date:	21st February 1906
Colliery:	Hebburn
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1

This accident was not considered serious at the time of its occurrence and it was not then reported to me. Deceased and another shifter were working together in the North flat, Monkton way of the Bensham seam, taking out a prop which the tubs were catching at the turn 9 yards from the face of a lift in broken workings. Some coal and band fell when the prop was removed which deceased was clearing away, when a piece of blue metal stone, measuring 18 inches by 14 inches and 4 or 5 inches thick, fell from the roof and cut his head. He was able to walk home and was attended the same day by the doctor, who found a scalp wound 1¼ inches long; he progressed favourably until March 5th, when erysipelas set in, and death was due to exhaustion following it. The chargeman had visited them before the accident in the course of the shift. The Local Inspectors made no report.

Source:

1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449)

	Abbott, John, aged 55, Shifter, Buried: Jarrow Cemetery
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