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- Surname
- BARKER
- Forename
- Thomas
- Day
- 19
- Month
- 10
- Year
- 1910
- Age
- 64
- Occupation
- Stoneman
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Wheatley Hill
- Mineral Worked
- Coal
- Owner
- Weardale Steel, Coal & Coke Co. Ltd
- Location
- Wheatley Hill
- County
- Durham
- Details of Event
- Along with other two men he was arranging a flat sheet at the face of a Longwall gateway when a fall of stone came away from the canch and caught him. He died a week later. The man had begun moving some of the timber under the canch, and doubtless the accident was due to that.
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