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Surname
STAMP
Forename
Robert
Day
18
Month
07
Year
1908
Age
20
Occupation
Coke Loader
Mine/Quarry Name
Tinsley Park
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Tinsley Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Tinsley Park
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
The deceased and another man were taking coal from a hopper in the pans used on the top of the coke ovens to a brick hopper in connection with two Lancashire boilers set parallel to the coke ovens. The brick hopper is built at right-angles to the coke ovens. The pans run on rails with 2ft. 2in. gauge and the rails are carried on sleepers set on brick pillars about 9in. high, and project about 3ft. beyond the hopper at the end. They had some wire rope wrapped round them to act as a stop block. One tub had been emptied and run forward to this wire rope and another was put over the hole on the top of the brick hopper when an end of one of the sleepers broke and caused the rail on that side to bulge out. The result was that the pan fell off the rails and caught the deceased carrying him to the ground, a distance of 11ft.in. He was taken to the infirmary at Sheffield, where he died about three and a half hours afterwards. The pan weighed 8cwts and carried 10cwts of coal.