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Surname
JONES
Forename
William
Day
30
Month
05
Year
1903
Age
47
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Newton [or Wood]
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Richard Evans & Co. Ltd
Location
Haydock
County
Lancashire
Details of Event
Inquiry made and inquest attended. A drawer who had two scotches in a full tub when letting it down a brow dipping one n six with a hemp rope fastened to a prop and twisted a couple of times around the hook of tub somehow got the rope off the hook of the tub and the tub ran downbrow striking, the deceased near top of a jig. It was advised at the inquiry that a safer system should be adopted for letting the full tubs down that road in future.