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Surname
JACKSON
Forename
Morris
Day
19
Month
11
Year
1909
Age
22
Occupation
Labourer
Mine/Quarry Name
Orgreave
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Rothervale Collieries Ltd
Location
Handsworth
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
He was assisting in the erection of a bye product plant in connection with the coke ovens. At the time of the accident he was standing with one foot on a wagon and the other on a cooling tower. A train of waggons was knocked into the wagons he was standing on and he fell between it and the coke bench and was killed.