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Surname
COOK
Forename
Conrad
Day
26
Month
06
Year
1912
Age
21
Occupation
Loader
Mine/Quarry Name
Netherseal
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Netherseal Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Netherseal
County
Derbyshire
Details of Event
The roof of the Eureka seam is sandstone rock with occasional smoothed vertical joints. The seam is 3 feet 3 inches in thickness. Two shots had been fired in the coal in front of the gate-road. Deceased had nearly completed filling the coal when a heavy block of rock, 9 feet by 3 feet 3 inches by 2 feet fell from between two rows of props and crushed his head to the ground. It broke, over a lid on the waste side, and from a vertical slip at the face side. One end of it was held up by a middle set, but deceased happened to be on his knees directly under the end that went to the ground. A depression of the roof had doubtless caused a slight opening at the vertical slip and permitted the stone to fall away.