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Surname
BASKERVILLE
Forename
Walter
Day
08
Month
09
Year
1911
Age
19
Occupation
Labourer
Mine/Quarry Name
Lee Moor Quarry
Mineral Worked
China Clay
Owner
Martin Brothers Ltd
Location
Wotter
County
Devonshire
Details of Event
Contrary to instructions, he went to the top of a stope to divert the course of the washing water, and was returning along the edge of a cavity or gully, about 15ft in depth, when the ground slipped from under him and he was thrown into the gully, and smothered by a further fall of ground