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Details of Event: A 10-yard bord had been driven in the Yard seam and packs put in close to the coal on each side of it with openings on one side for longwall gateways in which a top caunch had been shot out nearly to the coal. After standing some time a gateway was started and deceased was kyrving in the top seam. After working a short time some stone fell and nearly caught him; he left and went to a place where his cross-marrow worked and proposed to work with him as the fallen stone was in his way. He however returned to his own place where he was shortly afterwards visited by his cross-marrow when he said that after finishing filling the tub he would come to him. Soon after they found him under a stone and dead. The stone was about 6ft 9in long, 2ft wide and from 2ft to 18 inches thick it was relieved by two jacks crossing the face diagonally one of which was quite visible before the fall and by a jack over the coal which he had bared in kyrving. A prop and head was swung out by the fall. The accident occurred in the night shift and the back-shift deputy had examined the place before the nigh-shift hewers started but the night-shift deputy had not visited the place and under the circumstances it would have been prudent had deceased sent for him. There appears to have been sufficient loose timber. The Local Inspectors in their report described the fall, and what loose timber they found, and concluded ‘otherwise in our opinion in good order.’