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| Date: | 25th March 1907 |
| Colliery: | Dinnington |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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This accident happened during the night when stonemen were shooting up bottom canches in longwall workings in the Beaumont seam. The chargeman of the set of four men of which deceased formed one, was off work, and it was arranged that another chargeman should fire their shots. Between where deceased worked and this chargeman were other two stonemen, one of whom was licensed to fire shots and these men had a shot charged with 15 oz. of monobel powder in one of their canches ready to fire at the same time as deceased's party had also a shot ready. The two stonemen at the intermediate point shouted "fire" at the face and then retired to the battery down the gateway and into a cross gateway where they also cried "fire," and then turned on the current and fired the shot. Deceased was at the time travelling along the face to seek the chargeman further out and arrived at the shot just as it exploded and was killed on the spot. The Jury recommended that the men firing a shot should as far as possible guard all the approaches and the Local Inspectors reported "He must have reached the front of gateway canch just as shot went off. It appears to us that if he had kept the crossgate course instead of travelling along the face no accident would have occurred."
| Source: | 1907 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4045), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines |
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Duke, Luke Hall, aged 25, Stoneman | |
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