Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Tuesday 01 April 1930
Fatally Injured At Colliery Screens.
A verdict of “Accidental death” was returned inquest held at yesterday, on Albert Smith (16), of 17, Church Street, Mexborough, who was fatally injured on the screens at the Denaby Colliery Thursday last and died in the Fullerton Hospital later the same day.
Evidence was given that deceased reached out for a piece of dirt which had passed him and that, after he had screamed, he was seen with right foot on the belt and his left foot fastened between the side of the belt and the frame.
The boy had gone seven or eight feet down the belt and reached the dirt. Edward Robinson, engine man, of Sunnyside, Denaby, said that boys working on the screen were prohibited from going nearer than eight feet off the knuckle joint of the belt.
Deceased was found near the knuckle joint. The belt was guarded by iron except for a gap near the knuckle. Witness added that since the accident the knuckle had been protected, and there was no possibility of such an accident occurring again