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Surname
OLIVER
Forename
John Hunter
Day
08
Month
03
Year
1902
Age
35
Occupation
Deputy
Mine/Quarry Name
Benwell, Charlotte Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
W. Cochrane Carr
Location
Benwell
County
Northumberland
Details of Event
While employed renewing and repairing the timber in a shaft which had deepened from the Beaumont to the Brockwell Seam they were suddenly precipitated down the shaft owing to a side bunton giving way which was partly supporting the temporary scaffold upon which they were working. An examination afterwards proved that this bunton was secured to the deals by a nail after the men had sawn through the wooden guide to which the bunton had bolted. They had been repeatedly been warned to examine the bunton which the scaffold was placed and also to use a check scaffold six feet below but they do not appear to adopted the latter precaution in this case. 2 killed.