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Surname
JACKSON
Forename
George Walker
Day
03
Month
03
Year
1905
Age
22
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Kelton
Mineral Worked
Iron Ore
Owner
William Baird & Co. Ltd
Location
Lamplugh
County
Cumberland
Details of Event
A nearly vertical vein of ore 18 inches wide in slate rock was being worked, and in order to make a roadway 18 inches of the country rock was removed on the left or hanging cheek in which a hole had been drilled and was charged and nearly stemmed when a mass of stone which it was intended to shoot down between the drill and the hanging cheek, measuring 5 feet by 1.5 feet by 1.5 feet, fell without any warning from a smooth parting at the top and a visible parting at the side and caught deceased. The place had been visited by an official during the shift and he thought it was safe.