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Surname
HASTINGS
Forename
Samuel
Day
08
Month
02
Year
1910
Age
19
Occupation
Pony Putter
Mine/Quarry Name
Dawdon
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Londonderry Collieries Ltd
Location
Seaham Harbour
County
Durham
Details of Event
He was taking in an empty tub which it was necessary to put into a siding until the full tub was brought out of the place. With this in view, and while still on the limbers. He twisted the tub so that it took the points for the siding. The pony should have been stopped here mid unyoked from the tub. He either failed to stop the pony in time and it moved away when he was lifting the limbers, and his head was crushed between the tub and a prop at the side. He died 27th February, 1910.