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Surname
HINCHCLIFFE
Forename
Arthur
Day
24
Month
01
Year
1907
Age
43
Occupation
Labourer
Mine/Quarry Name
Middleton
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Middleton Estate & Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Middleton
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
He was employed gathering scattered coal under the screens, filling it into barrows and wheeling it across a railroad to a conveyor. The washer is about 50 yards above the place where he crossed the road and the gradient from it about 1 in 24. About 12 yards above where the deceased crossed three full wagons were standing with the brakes firmly pinned down one of them had been filled the night before and the others that morning, and nineteen full wagons wire standing below where he crossed. When he was in the act of crossing the three wagons ran down and he was crushed between the buffer of the first one and that of the last one of the nineteen wagons and fatally injured It is probable that the cause of the wagons moving in the way they did was due to frosty weather. It had been a keen frost all the previous day and during the night, and the two wagons which were filled on the morning of the accident would be frozen and stiff the warm water contained in the coal from the washer had thawed and caused them to move away on the wet rails. In future wagons standing at this place under similar conditions will be secured by means of a chain.