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Surname
DIERY
Forename
Edward
Day
27
Month
10
Year
1906
Age
38
Occupation
Labourer
Mine/Quarry Name
Cramlington
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Cramlington Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Cramlington
County
Northumberland
Details of Event
Edward Diery died October 8. About 6 miles from the Cramlington Colliery on the private railway leading to the Tyne and where it runs parallel to a mineral railway owned by the North Eastern Railway both lines are crosses by a bridge carrying the private railway for Backworth Collieries. The bridge is kept good by the Cramlington Coal Company and on Friday night on the 26th October, a staff of their men were sent to renew the girders of the bridge. A hand crane running on rails capable or lifting 8 tons was borrowed from the Tyne Commissioners and by its means two old girders had been replaced by two new compound girders 33 feet long each weighing 5 tons which were lifted and carried by the crane for 30 yards About 6am on 27th October one of the old girders was being lifted to place in position parallel to the new girders to carry the footway by the side of the rails when the crane and girder fell over the side of the bridge down an embankment on to the North Eastern Railway, 16 feet below, carrying with them the two deceased men and another man who was seriously injured. The crane was provided with three interchangeable clips, but only one had been used and that on the rail next the load. The work was in charge of the wagonwright of the Cramlington Collieries, and he was present. The inquest on P.H. Diery, who was killed on the spot, was held by the County Coroner, and his jury in their verdict said "sufficient care had not been taken in clipping or fastening to the rails of the said bridge upon which the crane was resting.’ The inquest on E. Diery, who was taken to Newcastle Infirmary where he died, was held by the City Coroner, and his jury added to their verdict the Jury are of opinion the crane was not sufficiently clipped and that guy ropes should have been used to prevent the girder from swinging.’ 2 killed.