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Surname
EMMERSON
Forename
William Walker
Day
11
Month
09
Year
1914
Age
14
Occupation
Waggoner
Mine/Quarry Name
Copthill Quarry
Mineral Worked
Whinstone
Owner
Monkhouse & Peart
Location
Cowshill
County
Durham
Details of Event
Deceased was filling stone into a wagon, when a piece of stone fell from the overburden, some 50 feet above and hit him on the head, causing injuries from which he died the following day. The overburden had not been removed sufficiently far back from the rock edge.