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Surname
COOPER
Forename
John
Day
29
Month
05
Year
1906
Age
45
Occupation
Pikeman
Mine/Quarry Name
Leabrook
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
S. & T. Corfield
Location
Wednesbury
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
This accident occurred in an opening in thick coal pickings, where the strata are much crushed and broken. Four posts had been drawn in the bolt hole in order to drop some slipper coal, but as it did not come down a hole was drilled for a shot. Preparatory to firing it, deceased was drawing another post, and with a view to this, was relieving the lid with a pick. A large fall of coal suddenly took place and killed him. The place was well timbered but if the props had been drawn by a ringer and chain deceased might have been in a safer place.