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Surname
CROFT
Forename
Alfred
Day
07
Month
02
Year
1912
Age
54
Occupation
Brakesman
Mine/Quarry Name
Leyland Green
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Winstanley Collieries Co. Ltd
Location
Ashton-in-Makerfield
County
Lancashire
Details of Event
Two locomotives were attached behind 30 wagons of coal going down a colliery siding dipping 1 in 24. The train was stopped at a highway. Deceased had been lifting up some of the brakes of the first wagons when a coupling broke, causing five wagons to start off. The locomotives and other wagons then followed, and on deceased attempting to get on to one of the buffers he fell to the ground, and was fatally injured by the next wagon. He died on the 9th instant.