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Surname
HODGSON
Forename
James
Day
28
Month
05
Year
1907
Age
17
Occupation
Labourer
Mine/Quarry Name
St Helens
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Saint Helens Colliery & Brickworks Co. Ltd
Location
Seaton
County
Cumberland
Details of Event
Deceased had been employed about the screens at No.3 pit for a few days. Near this end of his shift his climbed into the first of four empty trucks standing under the screens it was said to escape having more work allotted to him by the foreman; he was warned by a fellow workman not to do so but persisted. Another truck was being lowered and it bumped into the standing trucks causing them all to move forward two or three feet. Just then deceased was climbing out of this truck and he was caught between it and a horizontal beam supporting the screening floor, there being only 6.5 inches clearance. He was released in 5 minutes but was dead.