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Details of Event: Deceased, who was sometimes employed in hewing and sometimes in putting was hewing on the day of the accident in a 5-yard bord in the Low Main seam. He came to work at 6am with the ordinary putting shift and his shift when hewing terminated at 2pm. He worked therefore as a hewer during the shifts of before and back-shift deputies. The place in which he worked was examined by the fore-shift deputy at 4.05am when he was examining before the entry of the fore-shift hewers, but he did not visit it and two adjoining places occupied by fore-shift hewers during the course of the shift his reason being that he had been called to some derailed tub some distance away. On meeting his marrow the back-shift deputy, he informed that these places had not been visited and the back-shift deputy went to them first and found deceased under a piece of coal weighing about 17cwt. which had fallen on him from a small hitch leader crossing the right nook of the place where he had been kyrving. He was last seen alive about an hour before by the putter. The Jury added the following rider 'We recommend that means should be adopted to allow the deputies to carry out strictly the provisions of the Special Rules 43 and 44. The Local Inspectors reported, 'that it was an accident, and that no fault could be found with anyone.’