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Surname
HEYES
Forename
Thomas
Day
25
Month
10
Year
1907
Age
15
Occupation
Pit brow lad
Mine/Quarry Name
Scot Lane, No.4
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
William Woods & Sons
Location
Blackrod
County
Lancashire
Details of Event
Crushed between the buffers of the railway waggons trying to get on buffer to rise in the waggons another boy trying to get on another wagon to ride put his foot on the break lever unpinned and set free the waggon which then moved forward crushing him between the buffers. The boys finished work orders had been given forbidding riding.