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Surname
JOYNER
Forename
Harry
Day
23
Month
10
Year
1907
Age
53
Occupation
Dataller
Mine/Quarry Name
Denaby Main
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Denaby & Cadeby Main Collieries Ltd
Location
Denaby
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
When coming out at the end of the shift he was caught by a set of full tubs on an endless rope plane and was killed. The travelling rope is between the full and empty tub roads and there is not room to go between the trams when they are passing each other. He was passing a full train and just as he tot to the first tub he saw the empty train approaching and he took hold of the full tub and tried to jump in front of it but evidently slipped and fell in front of the full train and three of the tubs passed over and killed him. The speed at which the rope was travelling was 2.75 miles an hour and the refuge holes were in the required distance of each other. The deceased had either been hurrying to get out of the pit or absentmindedly gone forward when he should have remained behind the full train until the empty one had passed it. The train were attached to the rope at intervals of about 90 yards.