Durham Mining Museum - Thomas Athey

Thomas Athey

Age:	18
Died:	14^th Mar 1933
Accident:	14^th Mar 1933
Year Born:	abt. 1915
Colliery:	Fishburn
Company:
Occupation:	Datal
Notes:	runaway tub
Buried:	St. Paul's Churchyard, Trimdon Station


Description

A datal lad was killed by a runaway tub at Fishburn Colliery, Durham. He was employed at the bottom of a face dilly, 42 yards long with a gradient of 1 in 12, operated by a small singletub face-jig. Owing to a misunderstanding, a hewer sent away a full tub before the lad had coupled the empty tub to the other encl of the jig rope, with the result that the full tub ran amain to the bottom of the dilly.

By your direction proceedings were instituted against the manager and under-manager alleging contraventions of Sections 44 and 47 of the Coal Mines Act, 1911. Convictions were recorded, particulars of which are given in Appendix I.


Tombstone

Trimdon Station — St. Paul's Churchyard

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Names on this tombstone
Name	Died	Age	Born
Elizabeth A. ATHEY
George ATHEY
Thomas ATHEY	14^th Mar 1933	18	1915


Sources

1933 Mines Inspectors Report
Church/Cemetery photograph (T-03248-06-0002) © Kev Duncan
Tombstone photograph (T-03279-06-0064) © Bob Dunn


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