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Surname
CHAMBERLAIN
Forename
Frederick
Day
13
Month
06
Year
1910
Age
60
Occupation
Shotfirer
Mine/Quarry Name
Duck
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lydney & Crumpmeadow Collieries Co.
Location
Cinderford
County
Gloucestershire
Details of Event
He was firing a shot of Arkite in a top caunch. Instead of getting round a corner into a place of safety, as he could easily have done, he stretched the cable to its full length - an inch or two over 23 yards - straight outbye from the shot, and from that point exploded the charge. A stone, projected by the shot, hit him on the side of the head and killed him. He probably held the common but absurd belief that the high explosives only strike downwards.