Disasters - Names		Disasters - Names

Date:	25th November 1913
Colliery:	Brandon, C Pit
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1

It was necessary to paint the outside of a coal hopper, and this was done by leaning out of the window openings and using a long-handed brush; a scaffold had to be erected under each opening to stand on; deceased and others erected a scaffold, and when he walked on to it, it collapsed and he fell into the bottom of the hopper 30 feet below; the scaffold consisted of two 9-inch by 3-inch planks lying across two 7-inch by 2½-inch deals; the latter were nailed at one end and at a point 2 feet 6 inches further along and then overhung - cantilever-wise; the 9-inch by 3-inch planks lay on the overhanging ends; a 4-inch nail came out when deceased walked on to the scaffold and he was tilted off; this was not a proper staging to have used and deceased showed little sense in trusting it; it had been erected during the absence of the foreman

Source:

1913 Mines Inspectors Report

	Bousfield, David, aged 20, Labourer
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