For years and years the pitts in all the bus depots have been open. Common sense has taught people not to fall into them. Until recently. One chap fell in and broke his shoulder. Because of this. Every pitt throughout the company has to be fitted with these removable barriers. I am sure they won't be cheap either. Our engineering manager of 42 years also left the company yesterday following redundancy. He said in all that time he knew of only 2 accidents involving falling into pitts!
Joe Gaskin was a tram driver for 56 years, driving over a million miles, at first on horse-drawn trams and later on Ashton's electric trams. After he retired in 1923 at the age of 78, he started going into the depot to help out. However, just 7 weeks after his retirement he fell into the inspection pit and died.
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