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Date:	5th September 1907
Colliery:	Adelaide
Cause:	Accident on Surface
Lives Lost:	1

A boy, age 14, died as the result of injuries received when assisting to move a truck at Adelaide Colliery belonging to Messrs. The West Durham Wallsend Coal Co. Ltd., on 5th September. The Colliery was short of trucks and it consequently became necessary for a truck under the "nut" spout to be shoved back up the sidings over the points to allow of it being lowered under the "unscreened" spout. When the truck was being shoved towards the points, it is supposed that the boy had been walking on the rail, with his shoulder against the inside of one of the front buffers of the trucks. As the truck travelled towards the points, the lad got his foot fast between the tongue of the point and the rail, and the oncoming truck pressed him down. He shouted out and the truck was stopped. His leg was injured and he was taken home. On the following day he was removed to the Bishop Auckland Hospital, where he died the next day. By Section 7(8) of the Act, this boy should not have been allowed to help to move the truck. The keeker was present whilst the truck was being moved and the regulation was known to him. He both previous to, and at the inquest, said he had no knowledge of the boy being in the vicinity of the truck at all.

Source:

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

	Pattison, William, aged 14, Stone picker, caught by a truck, which was being pushed up the sidings, and fatally injured
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