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| Date: | 5th July 1907 |
| Colliery: | Shildon Lodge |
| Cause: | Fall of stone |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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Of the five deaths due to non-compliance with the regulations, the worst case at Shildon Lodge Colliery, belonging to Messrs. Bolckow, Vaughan & Co., Ltd., on 5th July, and resulted in the death of a putter. His action was a distinct breach of Special. Rule 131 by "wilfully or negligently doing anything likely to endanger life or property." He was hewing and filling coals off the side of a pillar in a bord 16 feet wide, when a piece of soft blue stone, lying immediately over the seam, fell away and knocking him down broke his neck. This youth had no authority to hew coals. In the list of prosecutions by owners, there are several cases in which persons have been fined for doing as this youth was doing. Hewing and filling coals off the wall side is a most dangerous practice, and I could wish that some benches of magistrates would deal much more severely with such cases than they do at present.
| Source: | 1907 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4045), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines |
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Atkinson, Frank, aged 19, Putter, he was hewing off the wall side when a large stone fell away and killed him | |
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