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Surname
GREEN
Forename
Ernest Thomas
Day
23
Month
09
Year
1913
Age
22
Occupation
Incline Attdnt
Mine/Quarry Name
Griff Clara
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Griff Colliery Co.
Location
Nuneaton
County
Warwickshire
Details of Event
His duties were to attend to the self-acting incline in the gate road and to assist in lowering single tubs from the flat sheets to the incline top a distance of 29 feet with a gradient for the full load of 1 in 9. When taking a tub down deceased was in front with his face towards the tub, and the loader was behind the tub. It went rather faster than usual owing to one of the back wheels having become partly loose on the axle, and the locker in the opposite wheel having little effect on it. Deceased's head and chest were crushed between the moving tub and another standing at the blocks on the incline top. To go in front of a tub down an incline roadway was a breach of Special Rule 88, and General regulation 26. Deceased resumed work on October 12th and continued for seven or eight days. He was again medically attended and died from septic meningitis and pleurisy on November 2nd.