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Surname
HAGUE
Forename
Joseph
Day
28
Month
12
Year
1908
Age
40
Occupation
Brakesman
Mine/Quarry Name
Bickershaw
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Ackers, Whitley & Co. Ltd
Location
Bickershaw
County
Lancashire
Details of Event
When lowering waggons in the siding, and in order to move on some other waggons foul of the line, the deceased held a prop between the two sets of wagons. The prop somehow appeared to have slipped, and deceased got fatally crushed between the waggons.