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Date:	2nd June 1934
Colliery:	Delight
Cause:	Crushed by machinery
Lives Lost:	1

A conveyor "puller up" engaged in moving forward a belt conveyor on a longwall face, was killed at Dipton Colliery, Durham. Towards the completion of the work, whilst the belt was being run in the reverse direction in order to convey some gear up the face, the man, on his own initiative, removed part of the sheet-iron fencing from the goaf side of the belt near the gear-head and proceeded to clean dirt from the under belt with his left hand. His hand was pulled in between the belt and one of the rollers in the gear-head and badly crushed. He should not have removed the fencing or attempted to clear the dirt away whilst the conveyor belt was in motion.

Source:

1934 Mines Inspectors Report

	McNestrie, Albert George, aged 34, Pan Puller, crushed by machinery, Buried: St. John the Evangelist Churchyard, Dipton
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