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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.
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