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Surname
EXLEY
Forename
R.C.
Day
21
Month
07
Year
1909
Age
69
Occupation
Quarry owner
Mine/Quarry Name
Carlinghow Quarry
Mineral Worked
Sandstone
Owner
E. Exley & Sons
Location
Batley
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
He was found unconscious in a pulley wheel race. His head was injured and his clothing on fire. He died on the following day without recovering consciousness. No one saw the accident happen, but it is conjectured that he dropped some tool into the wheel race and went to recover it and was struck by the wheel. He had just been working in the blacksmith’s shop and his trousers may have been smouldering when he went into the wheel race. The wind from the wheel would fan the smouldering fire into a flame.