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Surname
ROBSON
Forename
John
Day
08
Month
12
Year
1900
Age
26
Occupation
Hewer
Mine/Quarry Name
Backworth, Algernon Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Owners of Backworth Collieries
Location
Backworth
County
Northumberland
Details of Event
Inquest attended. The deceased had charged a shot hole in the coal with ordinary gunpowder and stemmed it after which the deputy gave him a piece of touch paper lighted by means of a heated wire. The deputy then left the deceased who was found lying 8 feet from the shot hole and had been killed by the coals projected by the shot. Probably he had nipped off the end of the squib too close. The deceased should have fired the shot himself.