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Surname
COOMBES
Forename
James
Day
11
Month
04
Year
1906
Age
37
Occupation
Labourer
Mine/Quarry Name
Crockham Hill Quarry
Mineral Worked
Granite
Owner
Teign Valley Granite Co.
Location
Crockham
County
Devonshire
Details of Event
Crushed between buffers of waggons on railway siding while bringing out two full trucks to complete the train for the railway engine He evidently mistook the distance the trucks were apart, when he tried to go in between them to uncouple the towing rope with which the steam travelling crane had drawn them from the loading stage.