Durham Mining Museum - Stephen Wilkinson (original) (raw)

Age: 18 Died: 2nd Dec 1910 Accident: 2nd Dec 1910 Year Born: abt. 1892 Colliery: Brusselton Company: Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., Ltd. Occupation: Incline Lad Notes: due to a putter neglecting to place a loose chock across the top of a short dilly bank dipping 10 inches per yard, a full tub which he had left on a flat 4 yards from the chock got amain and collided with a full tub at the dilly bottom 13 yards away, causing the latter to run amain down the next dilly. This tub on reaching the bottom crashed into a full tub attached to the rope and then rebounded across into the level and crushed the deceased against a prop. There was apparently considerable laxity in the use of the chocks, which should have been put across the road as soon as every empty tub reached the bank head, and if this had been done the accident would not have occurred Buried: [not known] Category: Miscellaneous Underground Accidents :: Haulage :: Run over or crushed by Trams and Tubs 1910 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 5676), Durham District (No. 3) by A. D. Nicholson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 40, Accident Number: 2 Where to find this report If you are researching Stephen Wilkinson (e.g. for family tree purposes) and you would like to hear from others with the same interest then please complete the details in the following form. We will show the information you provide on this page so that you can be contacted. Return Return to Top