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Surname
BAKER
Forename
Samuel
Day
12
Month
01
Year
1908
Age
47
Occupation
Coke loader
Mine/Quarry Name
Silverwood
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Dalton Main Collieries Ltd
Location
Thrybergh
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
He was lowering wagons by gravity to the coke ovens when he was fatally crushed between one of them and a train of full wagons which bad been left much too near the points. There was a space of only 4ins. between the standing and the moving wagons.