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Surname
BARR
Forename
William
Day
01
Month
03
Year
1911
Age
37
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
South Skelton
Mineral Worked
Ironstone
Owner
Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. Ltd
Location
Stanghow
County
Yorkshire NR
Details of Event
He was engaged with another miner in removing a stook which would have been finished that shift when a sudden fall of roof (shale and dogger) took place and displaced seven balks. The deceased was probably caught by a running balk as, well as the fall. A shot had been fired 3.5 hours previously, which may have shaken the stone into which some of the balk ends were inserted, and a sudden pressure of the roof caused the stone to burst off. The working was said to have been very closely timbered.