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Surname
HARRISON
Forename
Alfred Joseph
Day
15
Month
05
Year
1914
Age
32
Occupation
Deputy
Mine/Quarry Name
Blackwell ‘A' Winning
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Blackwell Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Berristow
County
Derbyshire
Details of Event
He was engaged with other men removing the covering wood from the top of a waste hot water sump in the pumping engine room underground when one of the timbers he was sawing in two gave way, and he was precipitated into 2 feet of hot water 15 feet below. He died from his injuries on the 22nd May.