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Surname
IKIN
Forename
Herbert
Day
23
Month
12
Year
1913
Age
15
Occupation
Dirt Picker
Mine/Quarry Name
Brown Lees
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Robert Heath & Sons Ltd
Location
Biddulph
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
Deceased had been employed a few weeks at this work. His duty was to stand at the side of the shaker and pick dirt out of the coal as it was carried past him. For some unknown reason he went to the back of the shaker, and was found shortly afterwards fast between two bevelled wheels on the main driving shaft. The recognised means of exit for the screen hands was by a step ladder and not by the passage behind the shaker, the former being the more convenient in every way. The passage way was for the use of the engineman only. There was however no fence to deter them from using the passage. A fence has since been erected. The boys injuries were so severe that he died in the Infirmary from shock about 10 hours after the accident.