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Surname
HEIGHTLY
Forename
David
Day
19
Month
04
Year
1905
Age
25
Occupation
Deputy
Mine/Quarry Name
North Biddick
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lambton Collieries Ltd
Location
Fatfield
County
Durham
Details of Event
When riding on limbers on the 24th December 1908, he turned to speak to a boy in a tub and got his head crushed between top of tub and plank, whereby his skull was fractured. He resumed work on the 2tth March, 1904, continued until 5th April, 1905, took ill on 17th April and died 19th April, death being due to inflammation of membrane of brain caused by the accident.