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Surname
HALL
Forename
Joseph Greenwell
Day
05
Month
12
Year
1910
Age
46
Occupation
Hewer
Mine/Quarry Name
Harraton
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lambton Collieries Ltd
Location
Harraton
County
Durham
Details of Event
He was hewing along with another man in old pillar workings with a bad roof which required careful and close timbering, and owing to the clayey nature of the roof balks were used and a 2 feet timbering distance was in force. The deputy had not been gone more than 20 minutes when a fall of stone occurred and canted out the last two balks which had only middle props under them. The fall caught the deceased as he was filling a tub. If these balks had been ended, as they should have been, according to the timbering rules, the accident would not have occurred.