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Date:	19th November 1907
Colliery:	Lingdale (Ironstone)
Cause:	Fall of stone
Lives Lost:	2

As in the collieries of Durham, there was one case in the Cleveland Mines during the year by which two men were killed and a third was injured. This case occurred on 19th November at the Lingdale Mine, belonging to Messrs. Pease & Partners, Ltd. The two men killed, one a machineman and son of the undermanager, the other a shotfirer, were both experienced mines. They were all in the same place, the shotfirer having come in about five minutes before the fall occurred. A hole was being drilled in the face when two small pieces of stone dropped from the roof ; the drill-changed shouted to the shotfirer that the place was working and the machine was stopped. The shotfirer turned round and was just about to "jowl" or sound the roof when it collapsed, a piece of "dogger" 15 inches thick by 33 feet long by 13 feet wide coming down on top of them. There were two baulks of timber about 30 feet from the face, and they were broken down by the fall. the "dogger," a stone forming the roof, is very treacherous and is so thick and dense that it is not easily tested by sounding or jowling. Besides, the men have a practice of drilling the shot-hole in a upward direction, towards and into the dogger. The subsequent blasting must necessarily shake the dogger and make it more liable to leave the parting between it and the shales above. Shot-holes drilled horizontally would not, to so great an extent, have this effect, and would need less powder, but there seems some difficulty in getting the men to drill them so.

Source:

1907 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4045), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines

	Stevens, John, aged 34, Shotfirer, they were killed by a heavy fall of dogger, Buried: Skelton Cemetery
	Whitbread, George H., aged 27, Machine Man, they were killed by a heavy fall of dogger
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