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Date:	26th June 1907
Colliery:	Wearmouth
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1

Steam at 45 lbs. to 50 lbs. pressure from two egg-ended boilers, each 45 feet long and 5 feet diameter, placed underground near the shafts in the Maudlin seam, was carried away in 8-inch pipes, and about 20 yards from the boilers was a short branch pipe closed by a blank flange with a rubber weeze joint. The rubber failed and steam escaped. Deceased, who was stopping double shift to oblige his marrow, was only clothed in a pair of drawers: he heard the escaping steam when at the top of a staple to the Hutton seam, where air from the staple cooled the escaping steam, and ran in the direction of the boilers to shut off steam, but as he proceeded, and when near a feed water heater, found the heat too great and had to retreat and was found in a state of collapse near some iron doors, He was attended to and the enginewright sent for, who, being fully clothed, was able to reach the boilers and shut off steam. The enginewright stated at the inquest that he, in company with deceased, had examined the blank flange 3 hours before it gave way, when it seemed all right. Deceased was scalded about the head and body but was not considered much worse and refused at first to go to the hospital where he was ultimately taken.

Source:

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

	Anderson, Ralph, aged 57, Boiler fireman, died from injuries received [Sunderland Echo reports: accident - 10 Jul 1907], Buried: Mere Knolls Cemetery, Sunderland
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