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Surname
HENSHAW
Forename
John
Day
26
Month
04
Year
1911
Age
52
Occupation
Daywageman
Mine/Quarry Name
Golborne
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Richard Evans & Co. Ltd
Location
Golborne
County
Lancashire
Details of Event
When descending shaft six hundred yards deep, the engineman failed to stop the cage with the result that it ran into the pit bottom with some force, causing injury to fourteen persons. Henshaw died from the effects on June 15.