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Surname
COPLEY
Forename
Amos
Day
31
Month
07
Year
1908
Age
28
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Hoyland Silkstone
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Hoyland Silkstone Coal & Coke Co. Ltd
Location
Hoyland
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
The shaft at which this accident occurred is 20ft diameter and fitted with cages carrying eight tubs on two decks. The drums on the winding engine are of different diameters, mid one cage runs to the old Silkstone Seam level a depth of 509 yards and the other to the Fenton Seam mouthing, a distance of 38:3 yards from the surface. At the latter level baulks are put across half the shaft for the cage to rest on, and fallers are also fitted. The spaces between the baulks were 2ft. 9ins. and 2ft. 5 ins. The day of the accident was the first the deceased had worked at this Colliery; he had completed his shift and returned to the shaft but instead of going to empty tub side of it as he should have done, he went through an opening in a wall, the full tub side and walked into the shaft which at the time was unprotected, and fell through the baulks to the Old Silkstone hanging-on, a distance of 126 yards, and was killed.