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Details of Event: Deceased was bringing to the shaft two tubs loaded with stone from a caunch. A pony drew the tubs and when about 40 yards from the shaft he is supposed to have swerved to one side when opposite the stable bord and drawn out a prop under one end of a balk. This prop appears to have fallen on the rails before the wheels of the first tub and the pony stopped. Deceased made an examination but may not have found what was amiss and the pony either moved away of itself or he started it when it pulled or rolled forward the loose prop and caused it to draw out two props under a running baulk across the entrance to the stable herd this balk fell and liberated one end of the balks at right angles to it and a mass of stone, about 5 feet square with a maximum thickness of 2 feet, fell from the roof upon deceased who was on the leading tub. The road at the point was nearly level and 7 feet 5 inches high made up of a bottom canch of 8 inches, the seam 2 feet 9 inches, and a top canch in blue metal of 4 feet. The stone is not very good and was well timbered, deceased and his mate having set it. The master shifter was with him when the accident happened. The Local Inspectors after intelligently describing the nature of the accident in their report said, ‘our conclusion is that all had been done that could be done to work the place with safety.'