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Surname
PATTERSON
Forename
Harold Ruben
Day
30
Month
10
Year
1912
Age
18
Occupation
Screener
Mine/Quarry Name
Sherburn Hill
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lambton & Hetton Collieries Ltd
Location
Sherburn
County
Durham
Details of Event
He had just started his shift, and had been sent to shovel small coals from the belt house floor under the jigging screen into a waggon below. He could do this work without going nearer to a revolving shaft than 5 feet. He was shortly afterwards seen whirling ound the shafting, owing to some of his clothing having been caught on an old disused sprocket on the shaft. The gearing was all boxed in, but the shafting could easily have been stopped if there had been any necessity for deceased to work near it.