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Date:	28th December 1906
Colliery:	Walbottle
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1

The seams here are highly inclined and many short self-acting inclines or dilleys are in use. At one of these inclines about 30 yards long the tubs were run in sets of two. The sets were made up against a wooden chock and about 6 feet below it was an iron middle way chock placed as a safeguard and not intended to he pinned down until it was found, after knocking out the wooden chock, that all was coupled. The middle way chock had been prematurely pinned down and at the same time the two full tubs had not been coupled, and when they were set free the foremost ran amain down the incline and coming in contact with the two empty tubs attached to the rope drove them back and caused the rope to pull the last full tub, which remained at the top of the incline, violently back towards the incline wheel and deceased was caught by it.

Source:

1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449)

	Brown, Joseph Gilbert, aged 20, Putter
	All names found

 

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