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Surname
DRYDEN
Forename
Michael
Day
03
Month
10
Year
1905
Age
15
Occupation
Driver
Mine/Quarry Name
Wearmouth
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Wearmouth Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Sunderland
County
Durham
Details of Event
Died October 11th. A full tub is always placed at the fore end of the empty set to steady it while returning inbye on a main and tall rope engine plane from the landing of which deceased drove tubs. The driver who taken the first tub from a set takes this full tub to the inbye end of the landing and places it on the full road. Deceased, who had been employed about a year underground, had hung his pony on to this tub and the three empty tubs behind it, and the pony appears to have started and he was attempting to get on to the limbers when he slipped front wheel of the full tub passed over his left leg. He was released at once. The pony was quiet and the road was in good order. Deceased told a hewer on the day of the accident that he had missed the limbers in attempting to get on, but his mother stated at the inquest that he told her that the pony had ‘clashed’ him underneath the tub and that it was a bad little thing.