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Surname
EVANS
Forename
William
Day
15
Month
06
Year
1902
Age
45
Occupation
Drifter
Mine/Quarry Name
Whitehaven, William Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Whitehaven Colliery Co.
Location
Whitehaven
County
Cumberland
Details of Event
A large fall occurred in a return airway in the Main Band breaking three air pipes and deceased with several others had got part of the removed and the broken pipes replaced by new ones when a stone fell from a slip knocking deceased down with his head against a pipe. Some temporary timber had been set and although none of this was displaced by the shot fired in breaking the stone possibly the piece which fell may have been loosened by the vibration caused the shots.