Single Record

Full Details

Surname

THOMPSON

Forename

Alfred Charles

Day

01

Month

12

Year

1905

Age

31

Occupation

Hewer

Mine/Quarry Name

Swalwell Garesfield

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Dunston Garesfield Collieries Ltd

Location

Swalwell

County

Durham

Details of Event

Deceased during the night shift commenced work in a wall 10 feet wide in the Brockwell seam, which is 2 feet 8 inches thick and overlaid by a ramble about 8 inches thick full of irregular partings and required full timbering. The ramble was taken down on the left side where the tramway was laid to make height for the tub. The place had been worked forward on the left side for a distance of 4 feet and 4 feet wide and here a prop and headtree was set and then nearly squared up by working bordwaysway across the face and when deceased was finishing at the right side a mass ramble 6.5 feet long and 3.5 feet wide at extremes and about 8 inches fell on him relieved by the usual partings and unsupported by any timber of which there was a sufficient supply in lengths suitable for both timbering under the ramble and with it taken down close at hand. The place had been occupied both in the fore and back shifts on the day of the accident. There was a lack of putters in the night shift and the deputy went to deceased's place to seek him to put and found him under the stone. The Local Inspectors reported that the occurrence was ‘a pure accident,’ but on being examined on their report admitted that a prop should have been set up under the ramble that fell.