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Surname
LAMB
Forename
John
Day
17
Month
09
Year
1907
Age
19
Occupation
Timber Leader
Mine/Quarry Name
Seghill
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Joseph Laycock
Location
Seghill
County
Northumberland
Details of Event
Died September 18. On a driving road in the 4th West district of the Blake or Main Coal seam the stoneman had on the previous night been engaged shooting in a top canch, 2 feet 1 inches thick, just beyond the landing and left a pair of gears across the tram road inside the brow. Deceased and a driver were in an empty tub to which was coupled a timber tram loaded with 6 feet props as the pony left the empty road at the siding and passed spring points at its junction with the full road the empty tub got off the way and came in contact with the right side prop, which was 16 inches from the rail of the pair of gears under the brow, displaced it and the plank came down and stone from the brow fell into the tub it broke in two pieces, one 4 feet by 2 feet by 19 inches and the other about 18 inches cube. Both lads were fastened but the driver was able to free himself and was little worse. The stone was relieved by a slip and would no doubt he shaken by the shot fired on the previous night. The chargeman who had fired the shot stated he examined the brow before he left and considered it safe and several officials bad been under it between the firing of the shot and the accident and had observed no danger. The Local Inspectors reported ‘It is a pure accident.'