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Surname
BELL
Forename
Anthony
Day
25
Month
08
Year
1903
Age
44
Occupation
Engineman
Mine/Quarry Name
Featherstone
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Thompson & Sons
Location
Coanwood
County
Northumberland
Details of Event
Deceased and another workman went into a return airway also used as a pipe road for conveying steam to a pump which exhausts direct into the return to attend to leaking joints. In order to locate the leaking joints a small pressure of steam was left on and in any case the road was very warm. After going so far with deceased found it too hot and returned to the pump leaving deceased who said he could stand the heat. Deceased's mate had all steam cut off and then returned to the drift and not finding deceased were he had left him concluded he had gone on to a door at the top. Some time after he found deceased further up dead evidently overcome by the heat. In subsequent search deceased's lamp was found 37 yards above his body. He had probably become confused, lost his and then turned back. Deceased had received a somewhat severe electric shock some few months before.