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Surname
AINSLEY
Forename
Samuel
Day
16
Month
08
Year
1914
Age
52
Occupation
Chargeman
Mine/Quarry Name
Newburgh
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Broomhill Collieries Ltd
Location
Amble
County
Northumberland
Details of Event
A pair of headings rising 3 inches to the yard, with stentons every 10 yards, driven 40 yards from a right hand crossheading, had been standing some weeks. A recent change had been made in the ventilation which took the main pressure of air off the headings. Ainsley, carrying a safety lamp (naked light mine), took Hume, carrying an open "midgy" lamp, through the fence into the fore-heading, when a fairly large accumulation of gas lit at the open light. Ainsley died soon after, and Hume died the following day. 2 killed.