Disasters - Names		Disasters - Names

Date:	26th August 1931
Colliery:	Sherburn Hill
Cause:	Fall of Stone
Lives Lost:	1

A wagonwayman was killed at Sherburn Hill Colliery, Durham. He was standing at a haulage junction where the hard post roof was supported by three rails, 12 feet long and weighing 28 lbs. per yard, set at intervals of 4 feet 3 inches, one end of each rail resting on a steel crossing girder 12 feet long, the other ends of two being notched into the side whilst the other end of the third rail rested on a prop. Without warning a fall of roof 13 feet by 17 feet 6 inches with a maximum thickness of 2 feet, occurred and broke down the three rails and the girder. The use of rails for roof supports is defective practice. The management agreed to use only heavy section steel girders at junctions and to double prop the ends of all crossing girders. It is a good practice to duplicate crossing girders as well.

Source:

1931 Mines Inspectors Report

	Cole, E. W., aged 49, Waggonway Man, killed by a fall of stone
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