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Surname
CLEMENTSON or CLEMINTSON
Forename
Joseph
Day
30
Month
03
Year
1906
Age
70
Occupation
Screener
Mine/Quarry Name
South Tyne
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Blackett & South Tyne Collieries Ltd
Location
Haltwhistle
County
Northumberland
Details of Event
Died March 31. Deceased, who was deaf in one ear, was caught by the main rope of a main and tail surface haulage road, while he was engaged in emptying stone from some tubs. The haulage road extends from a drift for about a mile along a burn to the screens where deceased worked. The loaded set mounts a kip and deceased was standing on the empty road at a point where it was 16 inches below the full road when a set of 30 loaded tubs approached. The heap keeper was near and warned the men of the approach of the set but deceased may not have heard although it was stated at the inquest that his good ear was towards the heap keeper and the approaching set. He was observed standing on the wrong side of the main rope and as it began to mount the kip he was pressed over by it on to the full road and the first tub of the set passed over him and the second was on his body when the set stopped in response to signals. The Local Inspectors reported, ‘examined the place, and the same to be quite in order.'