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Details of Event: Died October 25th, 1906. On 4th October, 1905, deceased, while acting as deputy, was firing by battery shuts of bellite for hewers. He made some complaint of being affected by the fumes and seemed unwell in the pit. After he came to the surface at the end of his shift, he was assisted home by the under manager and others. He told the under manager that he was troubled with wind on the stomach but made no reference then to the fumes. He was off work two or three days and was attended by a doctor. He resumed his former work of deputy, but in a few days was given lighter work as a chargeman in the night shift as he was too slow in his movements to get through a deputy’s duties. As chargeman he continued to fire bellite shots. After 12th September, 1906, he worked no more. On 20th September, 1906, a medical certificate was given that he was suffering from heart trouble and that his condition ‘had probably been detrimentally affected by inhalation of fumes from explosives.’ An inquest was held after a post-mortem examination which did not bear out the certificate, as the doctor’s report contained the following: ‘extensive disease of the heart and blood vessels of many years duration and that the unanimous opinion of the medical men present that the disease was independent of any accident whatever but was entirely due to natural causes.’ The Jury found in accordance with this opinion.