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Surname
BAKER
Forename
Frank
Day
12
Month
09
Year
1907
Age
52
Occupation
Quarryman
Mine/Quarry Name
Hartham Quarry
Mineral Worked
Bath Stone
Owner
Marsh, Son & Gibbs Ltd
Location
Corsham
County
Wiltshire
Details of Event
He and his comrade had raised a block of waste stone (gob), 6 feet 4 inches by 4 feet by 6 inches, on to a pile of blocks about 4.5 feet high, and as they were working it forward with bars, and rollers underneath, to get it back into the gob or waste, he stepped a little way back and falling over the edge of the block, alighted with his back on the crane handle and toppled over on to his head, fracturing the base of the skull. The height he fell from was only 4.5 feet.