Disasters - Names		Disasters - Names

Date:	7th November 1907
Colliery:	Dinnington
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1

At 4 p.m. after work at the screens had finished a locomotive fireman was coupling up a set of 12 loaded trucks to which the engine was attached. A few feet behind the 12th truck stood a truck loaded with workmen's fire coal and which was not to be coupled. Deceased hurried from the screens and stood between the 12th and 13th trucks evidently intending to ride home. A loaded truck was allowed to gravitate from the screens and bumped into the 13th and deceased was crushed about the chest between the buffers of the 12th and 13th trucks. The fireman saw him fall out, on the slight rebound of the trucks, and he lay on his back with one leg over the rails. He died almost at once. A workmen's train leaves the colliery at 4.35 p.m. which deceased should have used. Notice boards are put up prohibiting promiscuous riding but seems to have little effect. A Local Inspector inspected the place of accident and reported "Could not see anything to suggest the cause of the accident."

Source:

1907 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4045)

	Gowens, Robert, aged 52, Screener
	All names found

 

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