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Surname
ANSLOW
Forename
James
Day
22
Month
09
Year
1911
Age
36
Occupation
Stallman
Mine/Quarry Name
Littleton, No.3
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Littleton Collieries Ltd
Location
Huntington
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
A fall of roof estimated to be from 30 to 35 tons, occurred at the loose end of the deceased man's stall in the 8ft seam. It reeled out five props and buried him, and when released two hours later he was found to be dead. The roof had weighted from the direction of the waste, where the cogging was not pinned rip to the roof. A pillar of coal 5ft. square which had been left for roof support on the line of the carving side of the adjoining stall was completely crushed. The accident was probably due to a sudden weighting of the roof acting upon a 5ft. thickness of friable roof containing unseen slips, causing it to break up and fall at the coal face where the no timber was displaced and the deceased man was overwhelmed by the debris while holing in the lower part of the coal seam before he hail time to move from his position.