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Surname
HODGSON
Forename
Parker
Day
18
Month
01
Year
1911
Age
27
Occupation
Hewer
Mine/Quarry Name
Chilton
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Henry Stobart & Co. Ltd
Location
Chilton
County
Durham
Details of Event
He was working along with another hewer in a broken working seven yards wide when a stone 7.5 feet long, 15 inches thick, having a maximum width of three feet, suddenly fell away from between two slips running more or less parallel with the coal face. The deceased bad sounded the stone a short time previously and set a prop under it as he did not consider it very good. This prop was only about a foot from the coal and had unfortunately been set just on the edge of one of the slips, as the stone subsequently fell between the prop and another pair of gears about three feet away.