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Surname
HENDERSON
Forename
George
Day
23
Month
12
Year
1912
Age
38
Occupation
Hewer
Mine/Quarry Name
Tanfield Lea, Margaret Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
James Joicey & Co. Ltd
Location
Tanfield
County
Durham
Details of Event
While filling coal into a bogie conveyor working on a long wall face in a seam 3 feet thick, a piece of top coal fell, coining off at a back, catching deceased's left hand. After having his hand attended to for some two months, the doctor decided, owing to the thumb bone being fractured, that it would be better to take off the upper portion of the thumb. During the administration of chloroform, on 16th February, 1913, he died from heart failure.