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Surname
MOUNTFORD
Forename
Fred
Day
19
Month
11
Year
1914
Age
50
Occupation
Fireman
Mine/Quarry Name
Glebe
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fenton Collieries Ltd
Location
Fenton
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
The accident happened in a jig having an inclination of 1 in 4. While two tubs were being jigged the front one left the rails. Shortly afterwards, the deceased arrived on the scene and having, together with another man, examined the coupling between though tubs and satisfied himself that it was secure, he went to the lower end of the tub and was lifting it on to the rails, when by some means it became detached and overpowered him. He was thrown on his back and pinned to the floor by the runaway tub four yards lower down, and his neck was dislocated. The hooks on the ends of the tub drawbars are inverted, and owing to their shape and the length of the big links at the ends of the coupling chain (being about 5 inches) it is assumed that while he was tilting the tub to replace it on the rails, the coupling became slack and one of the end links fouled a piece of dirt and became detached from the drawbar. It was arranged to alter the couplings in order to prevent a similar accident happening in future.