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Surname
ANDREWS
Forename
Nicholas
Day
01
Month
11
Year
1918
Age
35
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
New Ingleton
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
New Ingleton Collieries Ltd
Location
Ingleton
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
Of Castleford. Lowering an empty tub, on rails, to the coal face. This was down a slope, estimated at 1 in 4, and they had used a rope to lower the tub part of the way, and then let it down by hand the remainder. They had a locker (a wood or iron rod stuck through the spokes to stop the wheel turning) in the wheels, and Turner was at the front with the other two holding the tub back. On entering the stall, the tub caught and dislodged a prop, causing the roof to fall on Smith and Andrews, crushing them to death.