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Surname
COOK
Forename
Enoch
Day
20
Month
02
Year
1905
Age
66
Occupation
Stone Getter
Mine/Quarry Name
Snydale Quarry
Mineral Worked
Sandstone
Owner
Henry Seal & Co.
Location
Featherstone
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
Five cartridges had been put into a hole, and while the foreman, who was the only person authorised to charge and fire holes, was preparing to charge a second hole with powder the deceased appears to have been putting in the primer and pressing it down with a wooden stemmer when the charge exploded and killed him. No one actually saw him do this, but the stemmer could not be found and there were wounds on his hands and body which pointed to his having been hit by the end of it.