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| Date: | 7th December 1907 |
| Colliery: | Broomhill |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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Deceased was working in a stenton 9½ feet wide in the Polka District of the Queen Seam, which is 4 feet thick and is overlaid by ramble varying in thickness from 8 inches to 14 inches followed by post. The hewers take the ramble down and are paid so much per inch for the work involved. Deceased, who worked with a candle, had fired a sumping shot in the centre of the place and then a shot at the right side which had not thrown the coal, and as he was hewing it down a mass of the ramble fell right across the place relieved by a slip at its edge about 3 feet from the face and in its fall canted a prop and covered deceased who however, was soon released. The deputy had examined the place before work started when it seemed safe but had not made his second visit, the accident happening in the fifth hour of the shift. There was a good supply of loose timber close at hand. The Local Inspectors reported "That the accident to Gardner is an accident pure and simple."
| Source: | 1907 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4045) |
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Gardiner, George Spinks, aged 25, Hewer | |
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