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Surname
HEDLEY
Forename
Thomas Jnr
Day
18
Month
12
Year
1906
Age
34
Occupation
Hewer
Mine/Quarry Name
Felling
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
John Bowes & Ptrs Ltd
Location
Felling
County
Durham
Details of Event
Deceased and his father were hewing together in a broken place in the 4th South district of the Maudlin seam, 5 feet 3 inches thick. The deputy was in the place at the time and having examined the face and set a prop was a few yards hack seeing to the necessary supply of loose timber. Deceased was filling a tub at the face, while his father was getting his bait a little distance back, when, without any warning, a stone 7.5 feet long, in the direction the place was going, by 2 feet 6 inches wide and 18 inches thick fell from the reef, and a few inches over the coal, displacing a prop in its fall and caught him. He was at once released and taken outbye and to Felling Station for conveyance to the Infirmary, but be died at the station. The stone was relieved by a jack at one side, and by a slip at the other and by a parting above, and it fell away between a pair of gears next the fast side and a prop and plank at the loose side. The Local Inspectors reported, ‘we are of opinion that it is a pure accident.'