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Surname
HILL
Forename
Samuel
Day
29
Month
11
Year
1906
Age
72
Occupation
Roadsman
Mine/Quarry Name
Thrybergh Hall
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
J. & J. Charlesworth Ltd
Location
Kilnhurst
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
He was employed greasing pulleys and cleaning the road on an engine plane. As an empty train was inbye deceased, who was in a refuge hole getting a meal in the dark, as he had by some means put his lamp out, shouted to the run-riders to bring him another lamp which was done with the next empty train, but the train was not stopped in going in. In coming outbye with the full tram the runrider was upon the eighth or ninth tub, and got off at the refuge hole where deceased had been seen when the empty train passed, and left the lamp, but did not see the deceased. He had travelled a few yards further when he noticed a dust and then heard a shout. He immediately stopped the train by signal and went to the front of it, and found deceased crushed between the third tub of the train and some props at the side, and so seriously injured that he died on reaching Rotherham Hospital. It seems probable that he had come out of the refuge hole ready to receive the lighted lamp, and miscalculated the position of the train, and so been caught by it. He should have stopped in the refuge hole till he got another light, as the runrider expected he would do. Had he done so the accident would not have occurred.