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| Date: | 19th June 1907 |
| Colliery: | West Wylam |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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Deceased, who was rather near sighted, had broken up into the roof of a coal seam, 3 feet 3 inches thick, so as to make a road above the coal into an adjacent shaft. During the previous shift he had fired a hole inclining upwards at an angle of 45° and he continued what was left of this hole, charged with probably about 14 inches of compressed gunpowder and stemmed it with pugged sagre clay brought from the surface, using a pricker, as although he had fuse with him he preferred using a squib. A putter had left him when he was nearly ready to fire and was only 7 yards away when the shot exploded and killed deceased on the spot, but the putter could not say what deceased was actually doing at the time. Possibly in drawing the pricker some grains of powder had trickled forward and caused the premature ignition on deceased holding the candle to the squib, or more probably owing to the inclined position of the squib he had ignited the powder in it when intending only to light the sulphur end. It would have been safer to use fuse under the circumstances. The Local Inspectors reported "In our opinion found it to be 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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Dinning, Joseph, aged 52, Stoneman | |
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