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Surname
BAINBRIDGE
Forename
Francis
Day
20
Month
09
Year
1906
Age
23
Occupation
Stoneman
Mine/Quarry Name
Dunston
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Dunston Garesfield Collieries Ltd
Location
Dunston
County
Durham
Details of Event
Died September 21 A shot-firer placed his battery in an old gateway at right angles to a cross gateway in which a shot charged with about 1lb of saxonite had been prepared to blow up bottom stone. He arranged with deceased to connect the cable to the shot after he had fired a shot in an ordinary gateway, the battery remaining in the same position for the firing of both shots. The first shot was fired and deceased went to couple up the cable to the shot in the cross gateway, and then shot-firer waited a couple of minutes and averred he saw a light pass the old gateway and thought deceased had retired. He fired the shot and deceased, who must have been close to it, was fatally injured. The Local Inspectors reported ‘We are of opinion that he met his death accidentally.'