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Surname
GUY
Forename
Thomas
Day
08
Month
01
Year
1913
Age
30
Occupation
Hewer
Mine/Quarry Name
Houghton
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lambton & Hetton Collieries Ltd
Location
Houghton le Spring
County
Durham
Details of Event
Deceased was hewing alone in a 5 yards wide bord, in a seam 5 feet thick. The seam was overlaid by a thin bed of ramble, and bord stone above that. He was kirving in the bottom when a piece of stone, shaped like an inverted saucer, fell on to him and broke his neck. The stone was 3 feet in diameter and 9 inches thick in the centre. The place was well timbered.