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Surname
ENTWISTLE
Forename
Richard
Day
29
Month
06
Year
1907
Age
38
Occupation
Quarrier
Mine/Quarry Name
Musbury Heights Quarry
Mineral Worked
Sandstone
Owner
Grane Quarry Co.
Location
Haslingden
County
Lancashire
Details of Event
Run over by waggon on tramway, riding with one foot on lever of break and one foot on draw bar. Whilst endeavouring to further press down the break lever he fell from the waggon and was killed by the second waggon. Deceased and another man were taking the two waggons along the inclined tramway, had just passed a gradient of 1 in 12, arrived where it was 1 in 24. Deceased was at the rear end of first wagon, the other man at the rear end of the second waggon, the brake to the former was a lever one, to the second a screw brake. A locomotive will take the waggons down in the future.