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Surname
WILSON
Forename
Thomas
Day
30
Month
05
Year
1913
Age
37
Occupation
Shaftsman
Mine/Quarry Name
Lumley, 6th Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lambton & Hetton Collieries Ltd
Location
Great Lumley
County
Durham
Details of Event
Deceased was engaged in putting 9 feet long pipes down the shaft. This was done by suspending in them by a chain from a bar across a hole in the upper of the two decked cage. The chain passed through holes in the decks. Deceased went down in the bottom deck, the intention being that he would see that the pipes were travelling steadily. There was a bar as a fence at each end of the cage. He must have looked past the cage end as his head was crushed between the cage and an intermediate staging in the shaft.