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Surname
WILSON
Forename
Ernest W.
Day
23
Month
11
Year
1909
Age
29
Occupation
Onsetter
Mine/Quarry Name
Middridge
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Weardale Steel, Coal & Coke Co. Ltd
Location
Middridge
County
Durham
Details of Event
This accident is almost similar to one which occurred on 20th September in this same shaft. In each case the signal given was not the one intended to be given. In the event of anyone at the Busty Seam hanging-on wishing to go down to the Brockwell Seam the signal given is five raps, answered by the banksmen with two, and then one from the onsetter. In this case the onsetter rapped one, which is the signal for coal work. The cage was at once raised and he, about to step into the cage, was caught by it and dropped into the shaft and killed. His assistant was in the cage and saw the whole occur.