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Surname
GALLEY
Forename
Simon
Day
11
Month
05
Year
1908
Age
48
Occupation
Labourer
Mine/Quarry Name
Thurrock Quarry
Mineral Worked
Chalk
Owner
Northfleet Coal & Ballast Co. Ltd
Location
Thurrock
County
Essex
Details of Event
Deceased and another were filling chalk waggons from a shoot in the roof of a heading 9 t. 3ins. wide, driven into the quarry face, the heading being lighted by three ‘flares’ or hand lamps. He was clearing away seine chalk which had fallen from the first waggon, when the other man after giving a shout of warning brought forward a second one at a slow speed. Deceased appeared either to have been getting into a manhole or sprag-hole at the side of the heading, or, being in it, to have incautiously put out his head to see the approaching waggon. He was caught and crushed between it and the side of the heading, and died in a few minutes. The sprag-hole was only 2ft. ins. wide by 2ft deep, and the clear space between the side of the waggon and that of the heading was only 4ins. There appeared to be no reason why the sprag-holes might not have been much larger.