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Surname
TUCKERMAN
Forename
William Capp
Day
13
Month
02
Year
1907
Age
31
Occupation
Hewer
Mine/Quarry Name
South Tanfield
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
James Joicey & Co. Ltd
Location
Annfield Plain
County
Durham
Details of Event
Another hewer and a putter were injured by this accident. Deceased and two other hewers were engaged taking out a stook 6 yards wide in broken workings of No.3 district of the Brockwell seam. The seam is only 22 inches thick and is overlaid by a somewhat treacherous blue metal reef. The place was well timbered and had been examined by the deputy before work started and twice during the course of the shift and the Local Inspectors when examining the whole pit had seen in it two days before. While deceased was cutting coals about the middle of the place a stone, 9 feet by 6 feet and 22 inches thick, relieved by a slip furthest from the face and by two jacks, fell upon him from close to face, canting out a pair of gears and two props with headtrees in its fall. There was a good supply of loose timber. The Local Inspectors had just come to the surface on the day of the accident after examining another part of the pit and returned to examine the place of accident, they reported ‘It was a pure accident.’