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Details of Event: Died March 17, Deceased was what is known as a hewing putter, that is, although ordinarily employed as a putter he was given a place to hew in when hewers were absent and there was not work for all the putters. On the day of the accident the fore shift deputy, finding two of the fore shift hewers were absent, after starting those that had come in, returned to one of the vacant places, a lift in broken workings in the straight in flat of the south way of the Bensham seam of No.3 Pit, and made it ready for a putter to work in, putting up a pair of gears next the loose side, and a prop and plank at the fast side, About 7am the putters came in, including deceased, who was directed to hew in the place made ready for him. Between 9 and 10am. a putter found deceased fast under a fall, and getting help be was liberated. His arm and leg were broken, and his bladder ruptured, and he died at the Ingham Infirmary, South Shields, on the 17th. The stone was blue metal, and was about 10 feet long by 3.5 feet wide at its base, and triangular in section, with a maximum thickness of 3 feet. It was relieved by slips, and fell off by the coal face next the loose side, and in its fall displaced the pair of gears and broke the plank of the prop and plank the deputy set. There was plenty of timber lying in the place. Deceased had frequently hewed during the three months before the accident.