| Description | Accident in the Ell Coal Seam at bottom of South Drift by shunt of tubs, at 1 PM on 18 Feb 1939. Signed statements of G Sidney Jones (aged 31), colliery deputy, of 19 North Crescent, Duckmanton, Noel Kitson Bennett (check number, aged 32), Pit Bottom corporal, of 16 John Street, Eckington, John H Paterson (check number 792, aged 17 years 7 months), haulage hand, of 104 Arkwright Town, Colin Chamberlain (check number 285, aged 23), rope runner, of 25 Railway Cottages, Staveley, William Coyne (check number 535, aged 59), haulage attendant, Bottom South and Inkersall Main hauler, of 199 High Street, New Whittington, Norman Maiden (check number 362, aged 44), Pit Bottom corporal, of 38 Orchard Row, Carr Vale, Bolsover, and George H Thompson (check number 277, aged 41), Pit Bottom corporal, of 54 Lime Avenue, Staveley. |