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Surname
AINTLEY
Forename
Gilbert Miller
Day
14
Month
07
Year
1913
Age
32
Occupation
Hewer
Mine/Quarry Name
Whitburn
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Harton Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Whitburn
County
Durham
Details of Event
Whilst hewing in a wall 6 yards wide in a bord and wall whole district of a seam 5 feet thick with a blue roof of poor quality, a large stone, 10 feet long, 5 feet wide, and 1 foot 6 inches thick in the centre, tapering to a feather-edge practically all round, fell from the roof close up to the coal face and left-hand coal side, breaking the ends of two planks partly set under it, and killed him instantly. Considering the nature of the roof, more timber should have been set on both sides of the barrow-way timber.