Full Details
- Surname
- GAFFNEY
- Forename
- Thomas
- Day
- 22
- Month
- 01
- Year
- 1906
- Age
- 22
- Occupation
- Hewer
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Elemore
- Mineral Worked
- Coal
- Owner
- Hetton Coal Co. Ltd
- Location
- Hetton le Hole
- County
- Durham
- Details of Event
- They were killed by a heavy fall of stone 8 or 9 yards wide by 12 feet thick which came away immediately at the coal face and which no ordinary timbering would have prevented. 2 killed.
