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| Date: | 31st October 1927 |
| Colliery: | Medomsley |
| Cause: | (See description below) |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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At Medomsley Colliery, Durham, a hand putter was casting coal back to another putter in a heading 15 feet wide in a seam 2 feet 4 inches thick, when a stone feet by 4 feet 6 inches by 1 foot thick, fell from a pot-hole in the roof and fractured his spine. He sustained severe internal injuries from which he died 25 days later. Deceased had only been employed for six months as a hewing putter. His mate who had only 10½ months experience as a hewing putter, had set a plank to support the roof, but the plank was discharged by the fall probably because it had not been properly set. The county custom of allowing putters to hew coal in their spare time is a dangerous one. Putters, inexperienced in coal hewing, should not be allowed to work at the face except under the charge of experienced and qualified hewers. There is a pressing need in the Counties of Durham and Northumberland for a carefully thought-out scheme to ensure the proper training of putters for work at the actual coal face.
| Source: | 1927 Mines Inspectors Report |
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Graham, G. N. (Walton), aged 20, Putter, fall of stone, died from injuries received | |
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