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Surname
DEAKIN
Forename
Clifford E.
Day
26
Month
12
Year
1913
Age
30
Occupation
Shunter
Mine/Quarry Name
Rotherham Main
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
John Brown & Co. Ltd
Location
Rotherham
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
Deceased was on night duty, and while some wagons were being moved by the locomotive be got underneath, probably while uncoupling, and was fatally crushed. He was using a hand lamp, and the surface lighting was too far away to give any efficient illumination.