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Surname
ALLAN
Forename
Charles
Day
04
Month
03
Year
1914
Age
42
Occupation
Machine Coal Cutter
Mine/Quarry Name
Measham
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Measham Collieries Ltd
Location
Measham
County
Leicestershire
Details of Event
Deceased was in charge of a disc coal-cutting machine electrically driven. The cutters were fixed close up to the coal face and the machine was being drawn forward by means of a Sylvester timber drawer for the cutters to work under the coal the required depth, when the proper hauling rope would have been attached. It was stated in evidence at the inquest that the machine when about to engage cutting, jumped backwards and sideways. The deceased, who was at the starting wheel, was caught by the cutters. Both his legs were completely smashed up from the feet to the pelvis, and the left arm severed below the shoulder joint. It took 2.5 hours to extricate him. He was conscious the whole of the time, but expired shortly after. It is probable that some part of the Sylvester failed and the machine began skidding on a slight incline towards deceased, who was in a narrow space between the machine end and coal side, and to escape, he immediately went too near the revolving cutters. A space ought to have been made for the cutters to start cutting at once.