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Surname
FLANNIGAN
Forename
Edward
Day
11
Month
03
Year
1913
Age
40
Occupation
Repairer
Mine/Quarry Name
Gresford
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
United Westminster & Wrexham Collieries Ltd
Location
Wrexham
County
Denbighshire
Details of Event
Deceased and another repairer were engaged in withdrawing timber on a downbrow roadway enlarging it. In order to remove some bars which were let into the sides at each end, they attached the main haulage rope to a bar but when it was out the roof suddenly fell away for a length of 23 feet and canted out more bars and part of the fall caught deceased.