Full Details
- Surname
- BELL
- Forename
- Emerson
- Day
- 11
- Month
- 01
- Year
- 1906
- Age
- 36
- Occupation
- Quarryman
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Copthill Quarry
- Mineral Worked
- Whinstone
- Owner
- Monkhouse & Peart
- Location
- Cowshill
- County
- Durham
- Details of Event
- He was killed by the premature explosion of a charge which he was putting into a hole. Three others were injured. The explosive, or part of it, was most probably frozen.
