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Surname
FINCH
Forename
Josiah
Day
16
Month
01
Year
1913
Age
37
Occupation
Stallman
Mine/Quarry Name
Donisthorpe
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Donisthorpe Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Donisthorpe
County
Leicestershire
Details of Event
The seam has a gradient of 1 in 2.5 and is worked to the full rise. Holing is done in friable shale overlying the seam. Sprags are set from the coal to the roof, and stretchers from the face to props to, guard against slabs of coal falling over owing to the steepness of the measures. The deceased and his brother, soon after arriving at the stall, began taking out sprags and using a wedge the coal. Deceased was incautiously in front of the coal, while his brother was wedging at the buttock end, when a slab of coal fell and fatally crushed him against a prop.