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| Date: | 28th March 1913 |
| Colliery: | Littleburn |
| Cause: | Collapse of arch |
| Lives Lost: | 2 |
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Collapse of a Colliery Arch
While a number of men who had been building a brick arch at Littleburn Colliery, Durham, were drawing out the supporting timber last evening the structure collapsed, burying three of them. Two masons, named Batty and Hodgson, both of whom were married, were killed, and a third man is expected to die of his injuries.
Source: The Times, March 29th, 1913
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Batty, John, aged 35, Bricklayer, a semi-circular arch 14 feet 6 inches long had been turned between piers 7 feet high; it consisted of four rings of bricks on edge; the centres were put in on 25th March and the work carried on the 25th and 26th; the centres were struck at 2.30 p.m. on the 28th; some 10 minutes later, when the two deceased men were under the arch getting out the timbers used for the centres, the arch collapsed and the men were killed; there was some haunching on one side, but not on the other, and it was at this weak side the arch gave way; the arch centres should not have been drawn until both sides were properly haunched, and it was the neglect of this which caused the accident | |
 | Hodgson, David Willie, aged 31, Bricklayer, a semi-circular arch 14 feet 6 inches long had been turned between piers 7 feet high; it consisted of four rings of bricks on edge; the centres were put in on 25th March and the work carried on the 25th and 26th; the centres were struck at 2.30 p.m. on the 28th; some 10 minutes later, when the two deceased men were under the arch getting out the timbers used for the centres, the arch collapsed and the men were killed; there was some haunching on one side, but not on the other, and it was at this weak side the arch gave way; the arch centres should not have been drawn until both sides were properly haunched, and it was the neglect of this which caused the accident, Buried: Meadowfield Cemetery |
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| 29 Mar 1913 | Collapse of a Colliery Arch (The Times) |
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