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| Date: | 5th October 1936 |
| Colliery: | Easington |
| Cause: | Suffocated by natural gases |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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A conveyor puller was killed at Easington Colliery, Durham. He was instructed, with others, to take an arc wall machine inbye along an intake airway. He was missed from his work and after an extensive search was found some 200 yards away and 66 yards along an abandoned roadway which was guarded across the entrance with a wooden fence bearing a danger notice board. The atmosphere of the roadway was fouled with firedamp, and he was dead when got out two hours later. As his electric cap lamp was still alight it would appear that he had deliberately passed the fence in contravention of General Regulation 9.
| Source: | 1936 Mines Inspectors Report |
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Watson, Ernest, aged 38, Conveyor Man, suffocated by natural gases, Buried: Easington Colliery Cemetery | |
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