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Surname
FISHER
Forename
Arthur
Day
02
Month
12
Year
1910
Age
28
Occupation
Onsetter
Mine/Quarry Name
Pemberton
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Pemberton Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Wigan
County
Lancashire
Details of Event
Another person was unloading props from a cage at top of a sixty yards drop pit when a prop fell to the bottom and fatally injured Fisher. The drop pit was used for lowering coal from the Wigan five feet to the Wigan nine feet mine.