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Surname
HALL
Forename
George
Day
14
Month
12
Year
1905
Age
59
Occupation
Wasteman
Mine/Quarry Name
Ashington
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Ashington Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Ashington
County
Northumberland
Details of Event
Deceased and another wasteman were enlarging a return air road and the stone worked was taken in a 'buck’ or iron stow tub with a door at one end to a tip in a stenton where it was emptied, cast through a man door and filled into tubs on the haulage road. The gradient from the point where they were working to the tip was in favour of the load the last 6 yards being the steepest. One drag was used until the steep part was reached when two were necessary. Deceased took away a loaded buck with one drag on it walking behind and as he did not return his marrow went forward and found him lying on the pavement at the tip jammed against a prop with one of the wheels of the buck against his neck. His lamp was hanging on a prop near the tip. Only one drag was in the wheels of the buck. It was surmised that after bringing the buck to the commencement of the steep part of the road he had left if, gone forward and hung up his lamp and then returned and eased the buck forward while in front and had been overpowered. The road at the tip was contracted and when the buck was there it was difficult to pass and this may have induced deceased to go in front of it. The Local Inspectors reported ‘we find the place in a safe working order.'