Full Details
- Surname
- HIGSON
- Forename
- Walter
- Day
- 19
- Month
- 02
- Year
- 1903
- Age
- 52
- Occupation
- Engineer
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Linnyshaw
- Mineral Worked
- Coal
- Owner
- Bridgewater Trustees
- Location
- Worsley
- County
- Lancashire
- Details of Event
- When cleaning oil-hole in pedestal of driving shaft of screening machinery, standing on a ladder 12 feet from ground his neck scarf caught the shaft he was whirled round and choked.
