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Details of Event: Deceased was hewing in a district where pillars were being split or reduced in size and at the end of a back shift on a Pay Friday was bringing a loaded tubs far out-bye. The road he travelled was for 13 yards fairly level and then had a dip out-bye for some 32 yards, of an inch or two per yard. He seems to have been in front of the tub, which had no drag in the wheels and was overpowered. He had passed through a canvas door and just beyond it was a turn in the road where the tub got off the rails and crushed his head against a prop. As he did not come out-bye the deputy went to seek him and found him lying in front of but clear of the tub which was off the way. His extinguished safety lamp lay on the floor near him. Some hair was observed on the front of the tub. The deputy stated at the inquest that deceased had asked him if he should bring the tub back from the face at the end of his shift and he had told him not to interfere with it. It is usual, particularly in broken workings, to bring the tub from the face at the end of the day and this is more necessary on Pay Friday when the pit would not work until the following Monday. The Local Inspectors in their report described the conditions they observed them but did not suggest how the accident happened. One of them in evidence at the inquest stated it was usual to bring the tubs out of broken places at the very ends and that he considered the place where deceased worked was a broken place.