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Prosecutions by Direction of the Secretary for Mines.
| Description of Defendant | Offence Charged | Result of Proceedings | Penalty | Costs | ||||
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| Mine: Beamish Mary, Owners: Lambton, Hetton & Joicey Collieries Ltd. | ||||||||
| Agent | Secs. 55 & 75. Failing to keep securely fenced a flywheel and certain dangerous exposed parts of machinery at surface screens |
Conviction | 5 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| Manager | Secs. 55 & 75. Failing to keep securely fenced a flywheel and certain dangerous exposed parts of machinery at surface screens |
Conviction | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Engineer | Secs. 55 & 75. Failing to keep securely fenced a flywheel and certain dangerous exposed parts of machinery at surface screens |
Conviction | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Owners | Secs. 55 & 75. Failing to keep securely fenced a flywheel and certain dangerous exposed parts of machinery at surface screens |
Withdrawn on payment of costs | 0 | 2 | 6 | |||
| Enginewright | Sec. 55, & Gen. Reg. 34. Failing to see that a flywheel and certain dangerous parts of machinery at surface screens were kept securely fenced. |
Withdrawn on payment of costs | 0 | 2 | 6 | |||
| Enginewright | Secs. 55 & 56. Failing to make a full and accurate report of the result of his examination of a flywheel and certain exposed and dangerous parts of machinery at surface screens which were not kept securely fenced |
Withdrawn on payment of costs | 0 | 2 | 6 | |||
| Total | 12 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 7 | 6 | ||
| Mine: Hebburn, Owners: Wallsend & Hebburn Coal Co. | ||||||||
| Owners | Secs. 75 & 29. Failing constantly to provide and adequate amount of ventilation |
Conviction | 20 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| Agent | Secs. 75 & 29. Failing constantly to provide and adequate amount of ventilation |
Conviction | 20 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| Manager | Secs. 75 & 29. Failing constantly to provide and adequate amount of ventilation |
Conviction | 20 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| Undermanager | Secs. 75 & 29. Failing constantly to provide and adequate amount of ventilation |
Conviction | 20 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| Owners | Gen. Reg. 2 of 1920-1924. Failing to treat the floor |
Withdrawn on payment of costs | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Agent | Gen. Reg. 2 of 1920-1924. Failing to treat the floor |
Withdrawn on payment of costs | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Manager | Gen. Reg. 2 of 1920-1924. Failing to treat the floor |
Conviction | 0 | 10 | 0 | |||
| Undermanager | Gen. Reg. 2 of 1920-1924. Failing to treat the floor |
Conviction | 0 | 10 | 0 | |||
| Owners | Sec. 44 (1). Failing to provide sufficient refuge holes |
Withdrawn on payment of costs | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Agent | Sec. 44 (1). Failing to provide sufficient refuge holes |
Withdrawn on payment of costs | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Manager | Sec. 44 (1). Failing to provide sufficient refuge holes |
Conviction | 0 | 10 | 0 | |||
| Undermanager | Sec. 44 (1). Failing to provide sufficient refuge holes |
Conviction | 0 | 10 | 0 | |||
| Owners | E.C.M.O., Cl. 6 (f)(I). Firing shots in working places not in all respects safe for firing |
Withdrawn on payment of costs | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Agent | E.C.M.O., Cl. 6 (f)(I). Firing shots in working places not in all respects safe for firing |
Withdrawn on payment of costs | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Manager | E.C.M.O., Cl. 6 (f)(I). Firing shots in working places not in all respects safe for firing |
Withdrawn on payment of costs | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Undermanager | E.C.M.O., Cl. 6 (f)(I). Firing shots in working places not in all respects safe for firing |
Withdrawn on payment of costs | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Manager | Secs. 75 & 29 & Gen. Reg. 77. Failing to measure and enter in book quantity of air in each ventilating district |
Conviction | 0 | 10 | 0 | |||
| Undermanager | Secs. 75 & 29 & Gen. Reg. 77. Failing to measure and enter in book quantity of air in each ventilating district |
Conviction | 0 | 10 | 0 | |||
| Manager | Sec. 76. Failing to withdraw workmen |
Withdrawn on payment of costs | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Undermanager | Sec. 76. Failing to withdraw workmen |
Withdrawn on payment of costs | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Total | 83 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Mine: Montagu Caroline, Owners: W. Benson & Sons Ltd. | ||||||||
| Manager | Sec. 68. Unlawfully did, where the working had approached within 40 yards of a place containing or likely to contain an accumulation of water, permit such working to exceed 8 feet in width and did not constantly keep extending to a sufficient distance not being less than 5 yards in advance at least one bore-hole near the centre of the working with sufficient flank bore-holes on each side at intervals of not more than 5 yards |
Conviction | 10 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Undermanager | Sec. 68. Unlawfully did, where the working had approached within 40 yards of a place containing or likely to contain an accumulation of water, permit such working to exceed 8 feet in width and did not constantly keep extending to a sufficient distance not being less than 5 yards in advance at least one bore-hole near the centre of the working with sufficient flank bore-holes on each side at intervals of not more than 5 yards |
Conviction | 10 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total | 20 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Mine: Risehow, Owners: Risehow Colliery Coking & By product Co. Ltd. | ||||||||
| Manager | Sec 64 (3). Failing to see that deputies before commencement of work in the nightshift recorded in the prescribed book a full and accurate report specifying whether or not and where if any noxious or inflammable gas was found, etc. |
Conviction | 5 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 6 |
| Undermanager | Sec 64 (3). Failing to see that deputies before commencement of work in the nightshift recorded in the prescribed book a full and accurate report specifying whether or not and where if any noxious or inflammable gas was found, etc. |
Conviction | 5 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 6 |
| Manager | Sec 64 (3). Failing to see that deputies before commencement of work in the nightshift recorded in the prescribed book a full and accurate report specifying whether or not and where if any noxious or inflammable gas was found, etc. |
Conviction | 1 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Undermanager | Sec 64 (3). Failing to see that deputies before commencement of work in the nightshift recorded in the prescribed book a full and accurate report specifying whether or not and where if any noxious or inflammable gas was found, etc. |
Conviction | 1 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Manager | Sec 64 (3). Failing to see that deputies before commencement of work in the nightshift recorded in the prescribed book a full and accurate report specifying whether or not and where if any noxious or inflammable gas was found, etc. |
Conviction | 1 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Undermanager | Sec 64 (3). Failing to see that deputies before commencement of work in the nightshift recorded in the prescribed book a full and accurate report specifying whether or not and where if any noxious or inflammable gas was found, etc. |
Conviction | 1 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Manager | Sec 64 (3). Failing to see that deputies before commencement of work in the nightshift recorded in the prescribed book a full and accurate report specifying whether or not and where if any noxious or inflammable gas was found, etc. |
Conviction | 1 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Undermanager | Sec 64 (3). Failing to see that deputies before commencement of work in the nightshift recorded in the prescribed book a full and accurate report specifying whether or not and where if any noxious or inflammable gas was found, etc. |
Conviction | 1 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Manager | Sec 64 (3). Failing to see that deputies before commencement of work in the nightshift recorded in the prescribed book a full and accurate report specifying whether or not and where if any noxious or inflammable gas was found, etc. |
Conviction | 1 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Undermanager | Sec 64 (3). Failing to see that deputies before commencement of work in the nightshift recorded in the prescribed book a full and accurate report specifying whether or not and where if any noxious or inflammable gas was found, etc. |
Conviction | 1 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Manager | Exp. In C.M.O., Clause 6, and Gen. Reg. 35 Unlawfully did permit a certain person to fire shots he not being competent to be appointed a shotfirer |
Conviction | 4 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 6 |
| Total | 38 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 6 | ||
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- 1927 Mines Inspectors Report
