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| | Durham Mining Museum - Eston (Ironstone) |
 | | Allison, Abraham, 22 Jan 1914, aged 29, Miner, Two shots had been prepared in a portion of a pillar near a fault, and where the roof was known to be dangerous from the presence of numerous slips or backs. |
 | | Best, Samuel, 15 Dec 1909, (accident: 07 Dec 1909), aged 51, Miner, He was busy working out some stone from the bottom of the seam with a pick, when a piece of ironstone, weighing from one to two hundredweights, fell from near the top of the seam and striking his head caused. |
 | | The deputy was sent for, and when he came deceased was assisting him to reset it, when the stone fell away and caught him, and so severely injured him that he died about half-an-hour afterwards. |
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