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Surname
HANDLEY
Forename
Joseph
Day
30
Month
09
Year
1908
Age
Occupation
Haulage boy
Mine/Quarry Name
Nostell
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lord St Oswald
Location
Nostell
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
The haulage was worked with endless rope and had an inclination in-bye at the point of accident of 1 in 12. The tubs were put on to the rope at junctions leading to the face. The deceased, with another boy, was putting lockers in empty tubs at a junction under the immediate supervision of an overman. The overman heard tubs coming amain down the haulage road and shouted to the boys to get into a place of refuge and then ran into the level. The runaway tubs rushed past and he then returned to the place and found that one boy had taken refuge behind the empty tubs but the deceased was lying between the full and empty roads seriously injured, having been struck by the tubs. He died the following day. The runaway tubs had come from a level 100 yards above the place of accident. The man in charge of that level had taken three tubs from a set of five standing in the level and was in the act of coupling them to another tub standing in the haulage road, when a trammer pushed a tub against the tubs in the level and caused them to run on to the haulage road and they struck the four which were being coupled, causing the six to run amain down the road.