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Surname
GARDNER
Forename
Joseph
Day
05
Month
10
Year
1912
Age
16
Occupation
Driver
Mine/Quarry Name
Willington
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Strakers & Love
Location
Willington
County
Durham
Details of Event
His duty was to drive tubs of sand from a drift to the shaft bottom and to return with the empty tubs; there was no other traffic along this road and the work was not difficult; he was last seen alive by one of the men in the drift, and was at that time walking outbye behind a full tub and it is assumed that he overbalanced himself in climbing over the tub to get to the pony's reins, for when found, the front pair of wheels had passed over him and he was quite dead.