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Surname
COWLING
Forename
Edward
Day
24
Month
02
Year
1913
Age
39
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
West Kitty
Mineral Worked
Tin
Owner
West Kitty Mines Ltd
Location
St Agnes
County
Cornwall
Details of Event
He and his partner were working in a very old gunniss from which they had run the bulk of the deads two days previously. Owing to the shape of the gunniss a part of the deads was left lying in a corner on a sloping block of ground. Immediately before the accident a long iron bar had been handed to him by his partner, who was standing under cover in a level about 10 feet below. There was not sufficient evidence to show whether he disturbed the pile of deads on the sloping block of ground above mentioned with the bar, or whether some ground fell and disturbed it. It, however, came away and he was partly buried in the restricted space from which he was working, and fatally injured.