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Surname
ROBSON
Forename
Robert
Day
02
Month
05
Year
1904
Age
14
Occupation
Driver
Mine/Quarry Name
Usworth
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Johnasson, Gordon & Co.
Location
Usworth
County
Durham
Details of Event
Deceased was employed as a driver bringing tubs in sets of three to an engine landing. The last 60 yards the road just before turning at right angles into the landing dipped outbye 3 inches per yard. When the drivers coming outbye arrived at the beginning of this dipping road they got off the limbers on which they usually rode and at a point called the drag hole put an iron drag into one of the wheels of each tub and then either got on the limbers again or walked behind their set into the landing. Deceased left the flat all right sitting on the limbers and carrying his lighted safety lamp but on arriving the drag hole where the three drags lay ready for use was unable to stop his pony and the load getting on the steeper gradient overpowered it and forced it against a brick wall at the turn and deceased was crashed under the tubs which were overturned. The Local Inspectors reported "far as we can see it was purely accidental".