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Surname
CURRAN
Forename
Joseph Wilfred
Day
21
Month
10
Year
1914
Age
16
Occupation
Driver
Mine/Quarry Name
Leasingthorne
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. Ltd
Location
Coundon
County
Durham
Details of Event
Deceased was following another boy who was leading a pony outbye on an engine plane. The haulage was by main rope only, the grade being such that the empty set of twelve tubs could take the rope in. They met the set at a place where there was not quite a space of 2 feet between the tubs running on the road and the props at the side, and on the side of the road where refuge holes were made. The refuge boles there were not large enough to get the pony in. The leading lad got into a refuge hole, and the set struck the pony. This caused the first two tubs to leave the rails, and they then struck the deceased. He was found fast under the first tub on the side away from the refuge holes. He died three weeks later from pneumonia brought about by a fracture of the fifth rib near the backbone.