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Surname
HISCOX
Forename
Herbert
Day
20
Month
02
Year
1905
Age
28
Occupation
Labourer
Mine/Quarry Name
Barrow
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Barrow Haematite Steel Co. Ltd
Location
Worsbrough Park
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
His duty was to receive the skips on an aerial ropeway carrying small coal from the screens to a washer hopper, empty and right them and fasten the catch and then put them on the return rope. By some means he was carried off the top of the hopper by one of the skips. Holding on by the front edge by both hands he was carried about 45 feet when he lost hold with one hand and in trying to regain it he pulled the catch and the skip turned over and he plunged to the ground, a of 40 feet and was killed.