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Surname
WATSON
Forename
Robert
Day
20
Month
03
Year
1905
Age
68
Occupation
Shifter
Mine/Quarry Name
Wearmouth
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Wearmouth Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Sunderland
County
Durham
Details of Event
From 2 feet to 3 feet of hard blue metal stone above the coal had been shot down for a distance of 14 yards in an old road 8 feet wide in the Maudlin seam. The stone shot down was left lying to be riddled by another set of men of whom deceased was one. The roof was temporally secured by the men who shot down the stone by props and headtrees 2 feet long being set on the sole trees resting on the debris. The master shifter was present when the accident occurred and was passing outbye over the stone with deceased immediately following him when a stone about 8ft long and 4ft wide and from 1 to 9in in thickness fell from the roof and while the master shifter narrowly escaped deceased was covered up and killed. The timber under the stone was broken and displaced. The Local Inspectors reported that it was a pure accident.