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Surname
BRASELL
Forename
John
Day
15
Month
05
Year
1909
Age
37
Occupation
Shaftman
Mine/Quarry Name
New Brancepeth
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Cochrane & Co. Ltd
Location
New Brancepeth
County
Durham
Details of Event
He and another shafts man reversed the usual order of things and purposed to use the jack rope to lift material and the crab rope for holding the cradle. At the fan drift level both men got on to the cradle and then disconnected the jack rope. At once the cradle ram amain down the shaft, the crab drum not being in gear and the pall not down. His marrow was thrown off at the Busty Seam where the cradle stopped but he fell from there to the Brockwell Seam and was killed. He had made no arrangements with anyone as to using the ropes in a different way to usual.