Danger In The Mine – Colliers Fined At Doncaster.

February 1909

Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Monday 01 February 1909

Danger In The Mine.

Colliers Fined At Doncaster.

At the Doncaster West Riding Court on Saturday, Martin Doherty and Frank Shay, miners, of Denaby, pleaded guilty to a breach of colliery rules at the Cadeby Colliery.

Doherty had neglected to draw the back timber before drawing the face timber, and Shaw had disobeyed the order of deputy. They had thus endangered the safety of the mine, and were each fined 20s and costs.

Arthur Gough, Thomas Haycock, George Wright, Hugh Williams, Patrick Frain, Robert Burton, Thomas Fauvel, and William Bright, fillers at Cadeby Colliery, were charged with neglecting to obey the orders of deputy by refusing go along the travelling road and insisting on going along the plane, which was nearer, though the route was fraught with danger to them.

Haycock’s defence was that he was obliged to go over some portion of the plane before he could reach the travelling road, and the latter, he urged, was not kept in good condition.

Gough, Bright, and Williams, who did not attend, were fined 7s. 6d. each and the other defendants 5s. each.