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| Date: | 17th September 1907 |
| Colliery: | Seghill |
| Cause: | Fall of stone |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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On a driving road in the 4th West district of the Blake or Main Coal seam the stoneman had on the previous night been engaged shooting in a top canch, 2 feet 3 inches thick, just beyond the landing and left a pair of gears across the tram road inside the brow. Deceased and a driver were in an empty tub to which was coupled a timber train loaded with 6 feet props; as the pony left the empty road at the siding and passed spring points at its junction with the full road the empty tub got off the way and came in contact with the right side prop, which was 16 inches from the rail, of the pair of gears under the brow, displaced it and the plank came down and stone from the brow fell into the tub; it broke in two pieces, one 4 feet by 2 feet by 19 inches and the other about 18 inches cube. Both lads were fastened but the driver was able to free himself and was little worse, a stone was relieved by a slip and would no doubt be shaken by the shot fired on the previous night. The chargeman who had fired the shot stated he examined the brow before he left and considered it safe and several officials had bean under it between the firing of the shot and the accident and had observed no danger. The Local Inspectors reported "It is a pure accident."
| Source: | 1907 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4045), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines |
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Lamb, John, aged 19, Timber Leader, killed by a fall of stone | |
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