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Surname

FINN

Forename

Frederick

Day

19

Month

05

Year

1911

Age

41

Occupation

Pit Sinker

Mine/Quarry Name

Tilmanstone

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

East Kent Colliery Co. Ltd

Location

Eythorne

County

Kent

Details of Event

Deceased and some others were cutting holes in the shaft walling to receive the ends of girders which were to support some pump pipes. They stood upon a temporary scaffold which was hung upon two crab ropes attached to the four corners of the scaffold by bridle chains. To enable them to get at the holes, the scaffold was drawn to one side of the shaft and stayed from the other side by three battens nailed to the scaffold and abutting against the walling. A fencing rope was passed round the bridle chains about 3 feet above the scaffold. The undermanager had descended in a bowk, which, owing to the scaffold being out of centre, had rested near the fencing rope, which appeared to have slipped up over the trunnion on one side if the bowk. Having obtained the measurements, he got into the bowk to ascend, and as it was raised away, the trunnion lifted the fencing rope and tilted the scaffold until the rope broke. Deceased slipped over the lower end of the scaffold and fell to a bricking scaffold which was fixed 300 feet below, and was killed on the spot. The other men saved themselves by clinging to the bridle chains. The fencing rope was used as a precaution, but in this case really led to the accident.