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| Date: | 17th January 1928 |
| Colliery: | Littleburn |
| Cause: | By machinery |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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At Littleburn Colliery, Durham, a screen engine lad foolishly climbed over a rail fence and was oiling the bearing of a shaft revolving at 105 r.p.m., when his clothing caught on the projection of a collar on the shaft and he was whirled round the shaft and killed.
In all three cases there was a notice posted in the immediate vicinity of the site of the accident warning persons that the machinery must not be cleaned or oiled when in motion, whilst the only protection provided was a rail fence. The sooner those responsible for the adequate fencing of machinery come to realise that a rail fence can very seldom provide adequate protection for most machinery the better will it be for all concerned. If fencing of the kind illustrated in Plates VI and VII, had been provided in the above cases, I feel sure that these fatalities would not have occurred. I refer more fully to this important matter of adequate fencing of machinery later on in my report.
| Source: | 1928 Mines Inspectors Report |
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Brown, Thomas, aged 17, Engineman, crushed by machinery | |
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