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Surname
FOY
Forename
Lawrence
Day
17
Month
12
Year
1903
Age
25
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Bickershaw, No.2 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Ackers, Whitley & Co. Ltd
Location
Bickershaw
County
Lancashire
Details of Event
Inspection made and inquest attended. The banksman was sending four big lamps down the pit and he attempted to put them in the descending cage against men coming up (contrary to rule) and as he was putting them in the engineman lowered the cage unexpectedly and one lamp fell down the shaft and struck the bonnet of the ascending cage and also deceased on the head.