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Surname
DIXON
Forename
Arthur
Day
16
Month
02
Year
1910
Age
18
Occupation
Waggoner
Mine/Quarry Name
Waterloo Main
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Brooks & Brooks
Location
Temple Newsam
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
When wagons were being lowered by gravity he foolishly went between the buffers to use a crow bar. He had also neglected to scotch the wagons behind him. They moved forward, and he was fatally crushed.