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Details of Event: Deceased was walking with a lighted lamp up a road having an inclination of 6 inches per yard down which loaded tubs descended in sets of three attached by a clip to an endless rope. The incline was laid with double way and had a travelling way at one side and was provided with the statutory manholes. The tubs arrived at the top of the incline where the road was nearly level, in sets of six drags were inserted in the wheels of the last three and the first three were uncoupled and ran forward to the endless rope where a lad attached a clip to them and the rope. These tubs appear to have run forward quicker than usual at the time of the accident and got on to the inclined road and ran amain and collided so far down with the previous set of three loaded tubs; none of the six tubs were derailed and the clip held. It is supposed that deceased was aware that some tubs had run amain and was in the act of using the electric signal wires to stop the rope, but had miscalculated the time available for doing so with safety and had been caught. He was found nearly dead on the leading runaway tub. There was no safety appliance provided to deal with an accident of this kind, hut the manager arranged to fit up horns, to he dropped from the top of the incline, so far down. The Local Inspectors reported, ‘We find that it was accidentally received through the tubs running amain.'