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Surname
FAGG
Forename
George (Survived)
Day
07
Month
12
Year
1915
Age
Occupation
Shaft Sinker
Mine/Quarry Name
Snowdown
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Location
Aylesham
County
Kent
Details of Event
The Times, Wednesday, December 8th 1915. Pit Accident in Kent: Two men were killed and two seriously injured in an accident early yesterday at the Snowdown colliery in Kent. Ten men were working in the deep sinking of No.2 Shaft, 2,100 ft below ground, when a hoppit containing about 30 cwt of debris broke away from the pithead owing to overwinding and fell among them. Two men named Tom Parker and John Mount were crushed to death and another named D. Mallett had his arm so badly crushed that it had to be amputated immediately on his reaching the hospital. Another badly injured man named George Fagg was also taken to hospital. The hoppit in its fall struck against the sides of the shaft, breaking pipes and destroying the electric light gear, so that the pit was in darkness, and it was two hours before the rescue party got down to the men. There were then 10 ft of water in the pit and Mallett, with his injured arm, was found, being held on to an iron ladder above the water by two of his comrades, who had been so holding him up for the whole of two hours. Owing to the flooding of the pit it was not found possible to recover at once the bodies of the killed.