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Surname
BAILEY
Forename
Joseph
Day
21
Month
11
Year
1911
Age
56
Occupation
Stallman
Mine/Quarry Name
Hamstead
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Hamstead Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Great Barr
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
Deceased had finished his work in the opening, and was walking down the side of a heap of coal towards the gate road, when a large piece of coal and top dirt fell off the lip of the road and struck him down. Simultaneously a quantity of loose coal rolled from the upper part of the heap and buried him. When released he was found to have died from suffocation. There was a visible line of fracture at both ends of the piece of coal which fell. It should have been got down.