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Surname
GRAY
Forename
Ralph
Day
17
Month
03
Year
1911
Age
54
Occupation
Hewer
Mine/Quarry Name
Mainsforth
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Carlton Iron Co. Ltd
Location
Ferryhill
County
Durham
Details of Event
The deceased and his marrow had just gone into their working place, a skirting 5 yards wide, having relieved the fore shift hewers. Before either of them commenced to work a stone at the "fast" side of the working fell away between a slip and a small hitch running nearly parallel to it, and killed Gray. The stone fell from a greasy parting and knocked out a prop at the end of a pair of gears 4A feet from the face. The distance fixed by the timbering rule was 3 feet, and had been reduced from 4.5 feet a few months previously. If the foreshift hewers had carried out this rule before leaving the face the accident would very probably not have occurred.