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Date:	25th September 1933
Colliery:	Silksworth
Cause:	Underground Haulage Accident
Lives Lost:	2

A double fatality which occurred at Silksworth Colliery, Durham, involved a conveyor lad and a switch lad. A set of eight full and four empty tubs attached to a tail rope, had been left at a loading station on a single-rope mechanical-haulage road with a dip outbye which varied between three and six inches per yard. The rope was held by a Smallman clip anchored to the side of the roadway, the brake on the hauling engine having been left in the "off" position. It was presumed that a lad at the loading station released the clip, with the result that the set ran amain, pulling the haulage drum round, and crashed into a stopblock some 170 yards outbye. The two lads, who were travelling outbye at the time, were caught by the tubs. It is true that the accident would not have occurred had the engineman secured the brake before leaving the engine, but the runaway would have been arrested without serious consequences had a runaway switch, held in the open position by weights or springs, been in use a little more than a set length from the loader.

Source:

1933 Mines Inspectors Report

	Amos, Albert, aged 20, Conveyor Lad, of Covent Garden Street, Sunderland, underground haulage accident
	Frecker, Logan, aged 18, Switch Lad, underground haulage accident, died from injuries received, living in Silksworth
	All names found

27 Sep 1933

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