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Surname
EDWARDS
Forename
Albert
Day
20
Month
08
Year
1906
Age
18
Occupation
Scraper out
Mine/Quarry Name
Florence
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Florence Coal & Iron Co. Ltd
Location
Longton
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
Deceased was a scraper-out on a face, cut under by a holing machine. He was killed by a piece of coal weighing three or four tons which fell off the face while he was scraping slack from the cut immediately beneath. Loose coal on the face had been noticed early in the shift, and stretchers set had been taken out, the face brushed and fresh timber set. At the back of the lump was a slip parallel to the face. It is probable that the slack removed by scraping released the coal at the back of the cut, and it dropped sufficiently to loose hold of the stretcher supporting it and then rolled over outwards onto deceased.