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Surname
CLEMENS
Forename
Ernest
Day
12
Month
03
Year
1907
Age
22
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
South Crofty
Mineral Worked
Tin
Owner
South Crofty Ltd
Location
Camborne
County
Cornwall
Details of Event
Crushed between cage and shaft timbering at a point about 100 fathoms front the surface where he was cutting a place for fixing a pump cistern. It is suggested that be tried to jump into the cage as it passed on its way to the surface, and he as caught and crushed by the bottom of the cage and not by the top. If this is a correct explanation and no other seems to present itself, it would appear to have been an insane idea.