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Surname
LYNN
Forename
Robert
Day
17
Month
12
Year
1902
Age
50
Occupation
Back overman
Mine/Quarry Name
Barrington
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Bedlington Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Bedlington
County
Northumberland
Details of Event
Deceased and an assistant backoverman remained in the pit after the hewers shift was over to adjust marks. Two stonemen who were not aware they were in the pit prepared and lit a shot containing nearly 2lbs. of gunpowder in a top caunch near the face in a road with a pillar of coal on one side and longwall waste on the other. The airway on to this road through the pillar coal close to where the shot was and was fenced off at both ends. Deceased as an official was in order in using the airway but the stonemen as workmen, were not. The stonemen after lighting the fuse retired straight outbye crying 'fire' and immediately afterwards deceased came through the airway and must have arrived at the shot just as it exploded and instantly killed. The rails were taken up at the place and this might have warned him.