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Surname
BAILEY
Forename
Charles Daniel
Day
19
Month
08
Year
1910
Age
20
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Birchenwood, No.6
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Kidsgrove
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
Deceased was opening a buttock off the top of a jig in a long-wall face in the Winpenny coal. He holed the coal in semicircular form to a maximum depth of nearly 3ft and 7ft with it the front. While doing a bit more to make coal to finish off a load, the roof over the holing fell from a slip and a fault at right angles to each other and converging upwards killing him instantly. It is most probable that a sprag would have prevented this accident and one should have been set in order to comply with General Rule 22.