Disasters - Names		Disasters - Names

Date:	7th January 1907
Colliery:	Dunston
Cause:	Fall of roof
Lives Lost:	1

Deceased, a son of the master shifter of the colliery, was kyrving at the roadhead in a longwall gateway in a wet working in No. 1 district of the Five Quarter seam, which is 2 feet 1 inch thick and is overlaid by 3 or 4 inches of ramble above which is peat. The post fell away, without any warning, over an area 12 feet long and 8 to 10 feet wide and covered him almost completely. The fall extended from the coal face outwards right across the road to where the tub was standing. It terminated at a small hitch leader which crossed the road at right angles, and here the stone was 3 feet thick, thinning out to the face and towards the sides. A pair of gears was canted out. The roof was not broken into before the accident as height was made in the gateway by a bottom canch being shot up. The place had been visited by the deputy before work was started, about 1½ hours before the accident, when it appeared safe. There was a sufficient supply of loose timber. The Local Inspectors reported, "In our opinion it was a pure accident."

Source:

1907 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4045), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines

	Powers, Samuel, aged 29, Hewer, killed by a fall of roof
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