Baker, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the town’s Royal Hospital. They were groaning, and one poor lad was moaning “My legs, my legs.”“They were all badly injured – faces, legs, ankles.
On the 30th July, when the manriding cage in No3 shaft at No2 colliery went free fall into the pit bottom after a brake rod fractured. I felt sick.”Matthew’s wife, Yvonne, knowing the accident had happened on her husband’s shift, spent a morning of agony until he came home.Pit cages, like the one which took thirty men to disaster yesterday, are one of the safest forms of transport in the world. However the brake shoes were about 0.12 inches (3 mm) clear of the brake paths as the vertical brake rod had broken into two pieces. He had never had cause to suspect his equipment at the top of the No.3 shaft.
He said he then ran to a nearby cabin for spanners but the cabin was locked and he had to kick the door in.Mr.
officials for distribution to people taking part in the public inquiry on Wednesday. I don’t stop tp look at their faces – I might have recognised someone I knew. In his desperate attempts to half the cage he had reduced power from 300 volts to between 200 – 220 volts but nothing could slow it down. They halted the cage on the other end of the cables it hurtled up and hit the winding gear, and stopped it from falling back into the shaft.As the inquiry got under, wives and other relatives of the miners were following the ambulances to the Royal Hospital, Chesterfield. Men came rushing out of the winding shed: “The chair’s gone down!” We went down another shaft. Some rescuers were so shocked by the carnage that they had to leave the pit for hospital treatment.The bottom deck of the cage was horribly buckled at the end of the 1,320ft.
Robert Dunn, North Derbyshire area director of the Coal Board, described the tragedy as a “further subchapter in the recent events which have bedevilled the coal mining industry.” It was “extremely serious and tragic.”The winding equipment was being taken from the shaft for examination.
About 50 witnesses may be called.More than £37,700 has now been raised by a public appeal towards the fund to help the relatives of the dead and injured men_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Nightmare plunge in an out-of-control pit cage- in which 18 miners died – was described today by one of the survivors – Mr Terence Vaughan, a 33-years-old development worker, who was on the top deck of the3 cage as it hurtled to the bottom of No.3 shaft at Markham Colliery, Derbyshire, with 30 men on board.“I felt a slight braking just before the cage reached the half-way, and then felt the cage begin to accelerate,” he told the public inquiry at Chesterfield.“I blacked out before I hit the pit bottom.
“Moving the brake lever was the same as picking a pen up – there was no weight there at all,: he told the inquiry.He carried on reducing the power and then pressed the emergency stop button, but the cage kept falling.“the next thing I can remember is bricks falling around me,” he said.
The report on the causes and circumstances attending the explosion which occurred at Markham Colliery Derbyshire on 12th January 1937 by.
The cage which ran in tandem, smashed into the headgear at the top of the shaft and detached itself automatically. Demaid, A.P.A and Lawley, A., “The Markham Mine Disaster”, Case Histories Involving Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics, ASTM STP 918, C.M. After each man had been tended by the two first aiders, he was hurried away to another shaft nearby and whisked to the surface.Mr Stephenson said later: “It was the worst thing I have ever seen. Andrew Marshall, aged 43, described how he saw part of the roof of the engine winding house “lift up into the air.” Bricks were flying everywhere.Mr. What about the men at the bottom?” he said.
I knew then that he was alive, but he didn’t say anything.”By 8 a.m. all the dead and injured were on their way to a nearby hospital in a fleet of ambulances.
After the engine had been tested men still waiting at the pit head went down in relays, but 17 miners had already gone home.An East Midlands Coal Board spokesman said the fact that the fail-safe devices acted on a minor fault indicated they would have prevented an accident if the cage had been on its way down the shaft. Markham Main Colliery was a coal mine in Armthorpe, on the eastern edge of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. Shortly afterwards there was a “terrible bang.”Mr.
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