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Surname
CHAPMAN
Forename
John
Day
19
Month
06
Year
1906
Age
47
Occupation
Stoneman
Mine/Quarry Name
Dunston
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Dunston Garesfield Collieries Ltd
Location
Dunston
County
Durham
Details of Event
Died 29th June. Deceased was engaged shooting up a bottom canch, consisting of 6 inches of sagre underlaid by 6 inches of coal and building the stones by the side of the road. After a shot had been fired he stated he was building the stones when one broke in his hands causing a wrench, and he felt so unwell that he left for home before the end of the shift. He worked no more and was under medical attendance up to his death. An inquest was held after a post-mortem examination. Medical evidence showed that death was due to acute pleuro-pneumonia and while two doctors stated they did not think it was caused or accelerated by any accident or injury a third doctor considered it would have, the effect of hastening death. The jury found that death was due to pneumonia accelerated by injury he received in the mine causing an overstrain.