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Surname
HALL
Forename
John
Day
26
Month
03
Year
1909
Age
14
Occupation
Tub pusher
Mine/Quarry Name
Lumley, 3rd Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lambton Collieries Ltd
Location
Great Lumley
County
Durham
Details of Event
No one witnessed this accident. It is thought that he bad been riding on the end of a tub as it was being elevated by a creeper and that in stepping off his foot had been caught fast in a link of the creeper chain. His left leg was torn off and he was delivered over the return drum of the creeper and let fall a distance of 40 feet to the ground His work was not at, or near, the creeper. The arrangements were in order.