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Surname
LYNCH
Forename
John
Day
22
Month
02
Year
1904
Age
16
Occupation
Wagon leveller
Mine/Quarry Name
Broughton Moor
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Flimby & Broughton Moor Coal & Fire Brick Co. Ltd
Location
Broughton Moor
County
Cumberland
Details of Event
After a wagon was filled at the spout which deceased worked the next empty wagon was allowed to gravitate against it down a road dipping 1 in 44 so to give it a start. A chock semicircular in section was laid upon one of the rails to stop the empty wagon when in position There was a distance 5 feet 9 inches between the line of rails at the spout and the next line of wagon rails but in this space a tub road had been laid down and crossing at right angles overhead a coal belt had recently been erected and two square uprights to carry it were set between the tub road and wagon road and a wagon at the spout only cleared these uprights by about 4 in. Although no part of deceased's duty he appears to have been adjusting the chock while the wagons were moving and his head was caught between the empty wagon and one of the upright and his neck broken. The upright should not have been placed so near the rails.