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Surname
CARTWRIGHT
Forename
George
Day
05
Month
07
Year
1902
Age
38
Occupation
Engineman
Mine/Quarry Name
Stafford
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lilleshall Co. Ltd
Location
Priors Lee
County
Shropshire
Details of Event
Pumping Shaft. A wood bearer 5ins by 4.5ins supporting a scaffold in pumping shaft on which two men were working broke causing Cartwright to fall to bottom of shaft a distance of 59 yards.