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Surname
CARTER
Forename
Reuben
Day
26
Month
09
Year
1914
Age
33
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Birchenwood, No.18
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Kidsgrove
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
The accident occurred in a breasting in the Bowling Alley Seam. Deceased was engaged pulling coal off the face above the head side chock, when some coal fell from slips at the top end of the breasting displacing set timbers, which slipped down and crushed his head against the chock. He died on the same day.