Durham Mining Museum - Albert George McNestrie

Albert George McNestrie

Age:	34
Died:	2^nd Jun 1934
Accident:	25^th May 1934
Year Born:	abt. 1900
Colliery:	Delight
Company:
Occupation:	Pan Puller
Notes:	crushed by machinery
Buried:	St. John the Evangelist Churchyard, Dipton


Description

A conveyor "puller up" engaged in moving forward a belt conveyor on a longwall face, was killed at Dipton Colliery, Durham. Towards the completion of the work, whilst the belt was being run in the reverse direction in order to convey some gear up the face, the man, on his own initiative, removed part of the sheet-iron fencing from the goaf side of the belt near the gear-head and proceeded to clean dirt from the under belt with his left hand. His hand was pulled in between the belt and one of the rollers in the gear-head and badly crushed. He should not have removed the fencing or attempted to clear the dirt away whilst the conveyor belt was in motion.


Tombstone

Dipton — St. John the Evangelist Churchyard

Location: OS Map 88, Grid Ref NZ151534

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Names on this tombstone
Name	Died	Age	Born
Albert George MCNESTRIE	2^nd Jun 1934	34	1900
Barbara MCNESTRIE


Sources

1934 Mines Inspectors Report
Church/Cemetery photograph (T-02832-05-0064) © Bob Dunn
Tombstone photograph (T-02831-05-0064) © Bob Dunn


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