Disasters - Names		Disasters - Names

Date:	4th July 1916
Colliery:	Mainsforth
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1

On 27th June Jacob Joyce, a hewer in the Harvey Seam, Mainsforth Colliery, was injured while passing a tub, and died in the County Hospital on 4th July.

At the inquest his marra, William Cotterell, said he and Joyce were proceeding along the walking way, Joyce being first. Deceased was carrying three picks heads in his right hand and his lamp in the left. The picks had been sharpened. As they were entering their place they met the putter with a full tub and a pony leaving on his way outbye. It was a narrow place. Joyce the called out "The picks have gone into me," collapsed and fell. He was put on a timber tram and taken to the bottom of the shaft three quarters of a mile away.

The surgeon said Joyce had an injury to his abdomen and consequently protrusion of the intestines. He was operated on, but later developed general peritonitis and died on 4th July.

	Joyce, Jacob, Hewer, injured by picks
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