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Surname
DUNLAVEY or DUNLOSEY
Forename
John
Day
18
Month
07
Year
1902
Age
14
Occupation
Trapper
Mine/Quarry Name
Whitburn
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Harton Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Whitburn
County
Durham
Details of Event
As the deputy was leaving a hewers place after timbering it up he was asked by the hewer to provide a plank. He gave a plank to deceased who was stationed at a door some distance outbye and who had only worked eight days in the pit and told him to follow a putter who was going inbye to the hewers place with two empty tubs drawn by a pony and asked the putter to look after him. The boy followed the putter and when near the face stood to one side at a somewhat narrow part of the road to allow the full tub to be drawn out when he was caught and crushed. It was no part of deceased's duty to carry timber face and the deputy was wrong in sending him.