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Surname
FAIRHURST
Forename
Joseph
Day
05
Month
09
Year
1907
Age
23
Occupation
Drawer
Mine/Quarry Name
Bold, No.1
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Collins Green Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Earlstown
County
Lancashire
Details of Event
When attempting to unleash the chain attaching an empty tub to the endless rope, near the mouth of an endway, he got fatally injured by being crushed against a low bar owing to some mistake in signalling.