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| Date: | 30th October 1907 |
| Colliery: | Grinkle (Ironstone) |
| Cause: | Accident caused by explosive |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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The third accident occurred on the 30th October in the Grinkle Mine, belonging to Messrs. The Grinkle Park Mining Co., Ltd., and was a direct breach of the Special Rules in force at the mine at the time. A bordways place was being worked up to a headways course, which was a yard or two past the bord. There were two men working in the bord or two in the wall. Knowing that the places were near to holing, the men in each place were told by the deputy that they must give each other warning before firing a shot, and this warning must be given by word of mouth. The deputy, an experienced and very intelligent man, took the pains to see that his directions were carried out. On the day of the accident an assistant deputy was going round the district telling them men it was time to go home ; this is done each day. This assistant deputy told the men in the bord to go home, and then went on and told the men in the wall the same thing, and then travelled into the face of the winning place. As he was returning down the winning place he heard shot fired. It transpired that the men in the bord, thinking that the men in the wall had cleared out of the wall, and not going round to see as they ought to have done, fired a shot. This shot holed into the wall, and a piece of stone projected by it struck one of the miners in the wall and killed him. This accident was the direct result of a breach of Special Rule 67. Previous to the day of the accident each set of men had shouted to the other and had received a reply before a shot was fired. In the present instance the men who fired the shot say that, before firing, they shouted as usual, but that, getting no reply, they thought that the miners in the wall had gone home. It was a very regrettable accident as there was not the slightest reason why it should have happened.
| Source: | 1907 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4045), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines |
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Corner, Thomas, aged 45, Miner, he was struck by a stone from a shot which blew through into his, from another, place | |
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