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Surname
AVER
Forename
William
Day
17
Month
01
Year
1912
Age
50
Occupation
Labourer
Mine/Quarry Name
Wheal Coates
Mineral Worked
Tin
Owner
Cornish Mines Ltd
Location
St Agnes
County
Cornwall
Details of Event
He was passing by the side of a traction wagon, which was loaded to a height of 2 feet 6 inches above the sides with long pitch pine balks, when some of them fell away. One of them, 16 feet long by 12 inches by 11 inches fell on him broke his ribs and both legs. He died twenty minutes later. Just before he went to the wagon, a chain, which encircled the load, had been released and the side door dropped, and as he was passing, a man standing on the top of the balks was pulling up the chain. The centre of gravity of the load had been displaced in transit. In all probability the balks were on the point of falling when the chain was released, and the movement of the man on top of the load no doubt set them in motion.