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Surname
DICKSON
Forename
George
Day
19
Month
07
Year
1904
Age
30
Occupation
Mach. Inspector
Mine/Quarry Name
Bispham Hall [Gauntly, No.1?]
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Bispham Hall Colliery Co.
Location
Billinge
County
Lancashire
Details of Event
Inspection made and inquest attended. When a water pipe was being handled at the bottom surface landing in order to be sent down the shaft the descending cage struck it causing it to fall down the pit, fatally injuring deceased who had taken one of the iron pipes down in the previous descending cage.