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Surname
ARNOTT
Forename
Robert James Hogarth
Day
26
Month
01
Year
1904
Age
47
Occupation
Hewer
Mine/Quarry Name
Pegswood
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Owners of Bentinck West Hartley Colliery
Location
Pegswood
County
Northumberland
Details of Event
The Low Main seam at this colliery is made up of 10 inches of top coal 2 feet 3 inches of band often called ramble and 3 feet 8 inches of bottom coal. Deceased worked in a bord 5 yards wide, and had prepared to fire a shot in the bottom coal at the left side of the place and after it had exploded he returned to the face and appeared to have been crossing from the right side where the tub road was when a mass of the ramble 5 feet long and 2 feet deep fell from the centre of the place and killed him. The bottom coal was worked for about 8 feet under the ramble which was not supported in any way in fact it is of so short a nature that is difficult to support and the practice is to take it down as soon as soon as possible. The ramble is a soft fireclay and in this case slips helped to relieve it. There was plenty of timber ready for use. The Local Inspectors examined the place soon after the accident but at the inquest no report from them was produced.