Cue and Day Dawn Cemetery, Western Australia - Photo Find a Grave
Richard Taylor HOLMAN
Age at Death28
Date Of Death11 July 1938 : Reg 27/1938 Murchison
Place Of BirthAdelaide SA
OccupationMiner
Geraldton Guardian and Express, Saturday 6 August 1938, page 4
Geraldton Guardian and Express, Saturday 6 August 1938, page 4
Kalgoorlie Miner (WA : 1895 - 1954), Tuesday 2 August 1938, page 1
Name Of Mine On Which Last Employed
Triton GM, Reedys-Cue, Western Australia
Diagnosis or cause of accident
Fell from a skip. Also killed was Arthur McMULLEN.
Place Of Burial
Cue and Day Dawn Cemetery, Western Australia
Submitted by
Eric Chamberlain - Volunteer
District
Reedys/Cue
Cause of Death
Mine Accidents
Father
Alfred Ernest HOLMAN
Mother
Rebecca Percival TAYLOR
Other Information
Mines Department report 1938
Richard Taylor Holman and Charles Arthur McMullen lost their lives by falling or being thrown out of a skip at the Triton. Gold Mine. These men and the shipman boarded the skip at the 600ft. loading station and rang to the surface. On passing
the 400ft. level the skip evidently fouled the shaft timbers and Holman and McMullen were then thrown out while the skipman was knocked unconscious on the floor of the skip.
Access was gained to the skip by means of a steel Ladder hooked onto the front portion. Before starting it was the practice to remove this ladder to the side. As the ladder was found badly twisted after the accident, it is conjectured that it was left hanging on the front of the skip and that it was the lugs of the hooks that fouled the shaft timbers.
The Coroner's jury found that there was insufficient evidence to allow of a decision being arrived at as to the cause of the accident.
