Single Record

Full Details

Surname

JAMES

Forename

Josiah

Day

26

Month

05

Year

1910

Age

55

Occupation

Pikeman

Mine/Quarry Name

Primrose, No.30

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

H.S. Pitt & Co.

Location

Cradley

County

Staffordshire

Details of Event

Deceased had lit a shot in his stall in the Thick Coal, and retired about 11 yards thick round a turn in the road to shelter. While sitting there with the loader and horse-driver, a shot in another stall near exploded, and, mistaking it for his own, deceased, followed by the loader, went back into his stall, when the shot he had lit went off in his face and so severely injured him that he died the same evening. The driver told deceased he was mistaken and in returning to the shot, though facing a good air current therefrom, no smoke was seen, but deceased concluded his shot had struck into a fault which ran across the place, and was misled thereby. If he had waited a minute longer before going back, his life would not have been lost.