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Surname
ASHBURN
Forename
Joseph
Day
31
Month
12
Year
1907
Age
54
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Clifton Hall
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Andrew Knowles & Sons Ltd
Location
Clifton
County
Lancashire
Details of Event
Fall in jig brow whilst repairing, deceased steed on three iron pipes (compressed air) 4 feet from floor, stowing dirt on iron girders. From 2 yards higher up the brow and from the lip edge of roof some stone fell displacing a prop, one stone fell on the three pipes whilst he was getting down, astride the pipes, the stone slid down on the pipes struck his back, forcing the lower part of his body against a pipe flange, the serious injury caused his death in three and a half hours. Two companions standing on the floor got away uninjured. The lip edge of roof ought to have had a bar under or more props. (Roof good.).