| Date: | 18th October 1935 |
| Colliery: | Brandon Pit House |
| Cause: | Shaft Accident |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
At Brandon Pit House Colliery, Durham, an underground engine driver, who was also an assistant onsetter, opened the shaft gate at an inset, presumably to shout to an onsetter at an inset below. He was struck and killed by the descending cage. The accident would have been averted had the telephone provided for communication between the insets been used.
| Source: | 1935 Mines Inspectors Report |
 | Gibbon, Thomas Elliott, aged 48, Haulage Engineman, he was struck on the head by a descending cage in the Hutton Seam and fell 270 feet to the bottom of the shaft |
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Some of the names of mining fatalities on this web site have been kindly provided by
Jim Grainger from his research into early newspapers (primarily the Durham Advertiser
and Durham Chronicle) and are marked with
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