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Surname
DAVIDSON
Forename
Charles
Day
11
Month
09
Year
1906
Age
14
Occupation
Hanger on
Mine/Quarry Name
Bedlington
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Bedlington Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Bedlington
County
Northumberland
Details of Event
An endless rope above the tubs worked a straight road and a branch road at right angles; the rope bringing the empty tubs inbye from the shaft on arrival at the junction passes round a sheave, crosses over the full way of the branch road, and then takes the empty tubs into that road, and passing round a return wheel brings the full tubs out to the junction, then cross over to, and round a second sheave, and go inbye on the straight road round a second return wheel, and then direct back to the shaft. Deceased worked at the junction, which was lighted, by electric lamps, and his duty was to attach the empty tubs going into the branch road to the rope. On the full line of rails of the branch road near where he worked is a knock-off to detach the rope from the V clips on the loaded sets; it consists of two angle irons 15 feet long placed horizontally 1.5 inches apart, in which space the rope travels, gradually rising to pass over a sheave placed above at the outer end of the knock-off. The prongs of the clips are prevented rising by the angle-irons and the rope is drawn out and the tubs then run by gravity across the empty road of the straight in road on to the full way. A set of two loaded tubs and an empty water tub came out to the branch road, and at the same time deceased, in some manner not ascertained, got caught between the rope and the knock off and his body was cut in two; the upper part being found jammed between the rope and knock-off just above where the water tub was standing, and the lower part and legs were under the first loaded tub. He may have been amusing himself by riding on the rope. The Local Inspectors reported, ‘Find no blame attached to anyone, and in our opinion it was a pure accident.'