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Surname
DORAN
Forename
Michael
Day
20
Month
11
Year
1907
Age
50
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Ackton Hall
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Ackton Hall Colliery Co.
Location
Featherstone
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
Immediately above the seam there is some top coal, about 16 inches in thickness, which is got down and filled into tubs as the gates are ripped. The deceased was getting this coal down and his mate was building one of the packs a tub had been filled ad his mate asked him to pass some stones to build the back wall of the pack and to do this he stepped under a piece of the top coal which he had been cutting when it fell and seriously injured him. The accident was solely due to the deceased neglecting to pull the coal down, which he could easily have done.