Durham Mining Museum - Thomas Dawson

Thomas Dawson

Age:	40
Died:	22^nd Apr 1926
Accident:	22^nd Apr 1926
Year Born:	abt. 1886
Colliery:	Sacriston
Company:
Occupation:	Hewer
Notes:	killed by a fall of stone
Buried:	Sacriston Cemetery


Description

A hewer was killed at Sacriston Victoria Colliery, Durham. Deceased was hewing in a stook 7 yards wide, which had holed into an old bord, the roof of which was unsupported. He was caught by a large fall of roof. In all broken districts where juds are holing into old places which are upstanding with the roof unsupported, there is great danger when the holing coal becomes so thin as to be useless as a support. This danger could be greatly minimised if the jud was holed through narrow, say not more than 6 feet wide, and supports set in the old place before the remainder of the holing coal was extracted.


Tombstone

Sacriston — Cemetery

Location: OS Map 88, Grid Ref NZ237474

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Names on this tombstone
Name	Died	Age	Born
Florence Isabella DAWSON
Thomas DAWSON	22^nd Apr 1926	40	1886


Sources

1926 Mines Inspectors Report
Church/Cemetery photograph (T-02679-04-0064) © Bob Dunn
Tombstone photograph (T-02649-04-0064) © Bob Dunn
Tombstone(s) in Sacriston Cemetery


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