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Surname
FORSTER
Forename
Harold
Day
20
Month
07
Year
1908
Age
30
Occupation
Labourer
Mine/Quarry Name
West Ardsley
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Yorkshire Iron & Coal Co. Ltd
Location
West Ardsley
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
Several wagons of coal were being emptied at the washer elevator standing on the same set of rails. The road at the elevator is level, but on the full side of it the gradient is 1 in 25. Two wagons had been emptied, and an attempt was made to get the third one to move down by gravity without success. The brakes of the fourth one were therefore lifted and a scotch knocked out. The fourth wagon moved and ran into the third, and the deceased, who for some unexplained reason, passed between the buffers of them and was severely crushed. Died the following day.