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Surname
BAILEY
Forename
Arthur
Day
17
Month
01
Year
1908
Age
46
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Victoria (g)
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Robert Heath & Sons Ltd
Location
Biddulph
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
Deceased was engaged in cutting out a pillar in the Cockshead seam, which lies at an inclination of 23 degrees. He had been getting coal of a horizontal rib about 3ft. thick, which had been left along the top of the drift about a distance 35yds. He called to his mate ‘look out’ and started to retreat towards the face of the drift, but in doing so he stepped in front of a portion the rib about 4 yards long, which fell on him and carried him with it down the drift until it was stopped by the timbering. He was injured so severely that he died before he could be removed from the pit Two days previously two posts had been set as sprags against the rib and deceased drew one of these before he commenced to get coal. The other one was reeled out by the fall. The work he was doing had evidently weakened the rib to such an extent that it could no longer sustain the pressure of goaf lying behind it.