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Surname
DARKER
Forename
George
Day
21
Month
02
Year
1900
Age
43
Occupation
Quarryman
Mine/Quarry Name
Castle Hill Groby Quarry
Mineral Worked
Granite
Owner
Groby Granite Co.
Location
Groby
County
Leicestershire
Details of Event
While barring stone down from the quarry face and protected from falling by a belt round his body held by a rope to the top of the quarry a large piece of stone came over and cutting the rope in two allowed deceased to fall a distance of 15 feet when he was instantly killed.