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Surname
HANCOCK
Forename
John William Green
Day
07
Month
04
Year
1913
Age
22
Occupation
Runrider
Mine/Quarry Name
Kingswood
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Bedminster, Easton, Kingswood & Parkfield Collieries Ltd
Location
Two Mile Hill
County
Gloucestershire
Details of Event
He was employed to ride up and down a haulage road having an average dip of 10 inches per yard. When the set of six tubs was being hauled up the incline at a speed of from 2 to 2.5 miles per hour he was run over. He rode on the chain connecting the hauling rope to the first tub of the set, and when so doing was in a most precarious position. The height of the incline was not sufficient to allow of him sitting, or even lying, on the top of the tubs. Across the incline some 130 yards from the top, were two brattice cloth curtains, and it is surmised that when coming through these curtains his light which he carried in his cap had been extinguished and that he then had stepped off the chain and had tried to walk on in advance of the set to signal for it to be stopped. In the dark as he then was, he had stumbled or slipped - as he might very easily do so - and had been caught and run over by the oncoming set before he could affect his purpose. The arrangement of having brattice cloth curtains across such an incline, without having an attendant stationed at the spot to open them as required was bad and showed a lack of foresight on the part of the responsible officials.