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Surname
HITCHCOCK
Forename
Samuel
Day
30
Month
06
Year
1904
Age
23
Occupation
Labourer
Mine/Quarry Name
Broadmead Quarry
Mineral Worked
Limestone
Owner
F.J. Barnes
Location
County
Dorsetshire
Details of Event
When descending a short ladder into the quarry he overbalanced and fell on to a heap of rubble and then rolled down into a gullet pulling with him a loose stone. He received a fractured skull and died in hospital two days afterwards.