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Date:	4th June 1934
Colliery:	Bowburn
Cause:	Electric shock
Lives Lost:	1

A fatality occurred at Bowburn Colliery, Durham. A coal cutterman was dragging a 4-core cab-tyre sheathed trailing cable up a longwall face, carrying over his left shoulder the plug which was to be attached to the machine. Owing to a misunderstanding his mate inserted the plug at the other end of the cable into the gate-end panel and switched on the current whilst deceased was still some distance from the machine. The handle of the unfortunate man's electric lamp made contact with one of the phases in the plug and he was electrocuted. Written instructions have since been given to all machinemen to the effect that the leading man must himself attach the cable to the coal-cutter, and then return to the gate-end panel, insert the plug, and switch on the current.

Source:

1934 Mines Inspectors Report

	Barlow, Scott, aged 26, Cutter, electrocuted, Buried: St. Helen's Parish Church/Cemetery, Kelloe
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