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Surname
GOWENS
Forename
Robert
Day
07
Month
11
Year
1907
Age
52
Occupation
Screener
Mine/Quarry Name
Dinnington
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Seaton Burn Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Dinnington
County
Northumberland
Details of Event
At 4pm. after work at the screens had finished a locomotive fireman miss coupling tip a set of 12 loaded trucks to which the engine was attached. A few feet behind this 12th truck stood a truck loaded with workmen’s fire coal and which was not to be coupled. Deceased hurried from the screens and stood between this 12th and 13th trucks evidently intending to ride home. A loaded truck was allowed to gravitate from this screens and bumped into this 13th and deceased was crushed about the chest between this buffers of this 12th and 13th trucks. The fireman saw him fall out, on this slight rebound of this trucks, and he lay on his back with his leg over this rails. He died almost at once. A workmen’s train leaves this colliery at 4.35pm. which deceased should have used. Notice boards are put up prohibiting riding but it seems to have little effect. A Local Inspector inspected this place of accident and reported ‘Could not see anything to suggest this cause of the accident.'