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Surname
GREENTREE
Forename
Henry
Day
11
Month
09
Year
1913
Age
31
Occupation
Mine/Quarry Name
Brickworks Quarry
Mineral Worked
Clay
Owner
Herbert Hutchinson
Location
Nyewood
County
Sussex
Details of Event
The quarry was being deepened, and the face was in the form of a ridge 14 feet high by 14 feet across. The face had been holed about 10 feet across, the holing being in to a depth of about 2.5 feet, and 4 feet high at the front. On the top vertical holes 2 feet deep, 1.5 feet apart and 4 feet from the face, had been punched across nearly the whole width; these it was proposed to fill with water when the holing had been completed, this being the usual method of bringing the clay down. Five men were standing near the face waiting for an empty trolley going down, when a huge fall of marl occurred, burying the two deceased men, who were dead when got out. The fall came off at the holes which had been bored and across the whole width. The method of working, which did not conduce to safety, has since been altered. 2 killed.