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Date:	5th July 1936
Colliery:	Randolph
Cause:	Struck by tubs
Lives Lost:	1

A putter was killed at Randolph Colliery, Durham. He was hand putting in a bord and pillar district in a seam with an inclination of 1 in 2¼, and also operated a single tub self-acting incline, 144 yards long, near the face. He attached the six-foot bridle chain on the 9/16 inch diameter Langs Lay patent steel haulage rope to a full tub weighing 14¼ cwt. which was standing on the flatsheets at the bankhead of the incline. Having removed the stop-block, he was pulling, instead of pushing, the tub off the flatsheets on to the incline when the rope broke six inches from the solid cone socket and the tub ran amain. He was caught by it and dragged 60 yards down the incline.

Source:

1936 Mines Inspectors Report

	Orton, Cleveland William, aged 34, Putter, he was killed by a runaway tub; the haulage rope had broken causing the tub to run amain
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