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Surname
GARDINER or GARDNER
Forename
George Spinks
Day
07
Month
12
Year
1907
Age
25
Occupation
Hewer
Mine/Quarry Name
Broomhill
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Broomhill Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Togston
County
Northumberland
Details of Event
Died December 8 Deceased was working in a stenton 9.5 feet wide in the Polka District of the Queen Seam, which is 4 feet thick and is overlaid by ramble varying in thickness from 8 inches to 14 inches followed by post The hewers take the ramble down and are paid so much per inch for the work involved. Deceased, who worked with a candle had fired a sumping shot in the centre of the place and then a shot at the right side which had not thrown the coal, and us he was hewing it down when a mass of the ramble fell right across the place relieved by a slip at its edge about 3 feet from the face and in its fall canted a prop and covered deceased who however, was soon released. The deputy had examined the place before work started when it seemed safe but had not made his second visit the accident happening in the fifth hour of the shift. There was a good supply of loose timber close at hand. The Local Inspectors reported that the accident to Gardner was an 'accident pure and simple’.