Single Record

Full Details

Surname

BECKETT

Forename

Fred W.

Day

09

Month

04

Year

1906

Age

37

Occupation

Collier

Mine/Quarry Name

Podmore Hall, Minnie Pit

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Midland Coal, Coke & Iron Co. Ltd

Location

Halmer End

County

Staffordshire

Details of Event

Deceased was preparing to set a post under the roof on the down throw side of a small fault in the Ten Feet seam. A level had been driven across the fault in the tops to a slip 4 feet from it. Deceased had thirled in the heading from a cross-cut driven up between the fault and the slip. The heading had been standing two weeks without timber when deceased thirled into it. Had timber been set when the heading was driven the accident might not have occurred. At the inquest the jury requested the coroner to censure the night and day firemen for neglect in that they had not had timber set in the heading before the cross-cut was thirled.