Full Details
- Surname
- BARTON
- Forename
- Richard (injured)
- Day
- 02
- Month
- 05
- Year
- 1914
- Age
- 21
- Occupation
- Haulage Hand
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Priestner's, No.2
- Mineral Worked
- Coal
- Owner
- Wigan Coal & Iron Co. Ltd
- Location
- Westleigh
- County
- Lancashire
- Details of Event
- Assisting to put up 12ft rail across shaft at top of decking - rail fell and jerked him into sump - fell 13ft into cage hole.
