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Surname
ABBOTT
Forename
John
Day
21
Month
02
Year
1906
Age
55
Occupation
Shifter
Mine/Quarry Name
Hebburn
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Wallsend & Hebburn Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Hebburn
County
Durham
Details of Event
Died April 25. This accident was not considered serious at the time of its occurrence and it was not then reported to me. Deceased and another shifter were working together in the North flat, Monkton way of the Bensham seam, taking out a prop which the tubs were catching at the turn 9 yards from the face of a lift in broken workings. Some coal and band fell when the prop was removed which deceased was clearing away, when a piece of blue metal stone measuring 18 inches by 14 inches and 4 or 5 inches thick fell from the roof and cut his head. He was able to walk home and was attended the same day by the doctor, who found a scalp wound 1.5 inches long; he progressed favourably until March 5th, when erysipelas set in and death was due, to exhaustion following it. The chargeman had visited them before the accident in the course of the shift. Local Inspectors made no report.