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Surname
JONES
Forename
William
Day
29
Month
09
Year
1908
Age
35
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Kinlet
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Highley Mining Co. Ltd
Location
Highley
County
Shropshire
Details of Event
Deceased was cleaning up some dirt from the floor at the buttock in a longwall by 5ft. the thickness of dirt being about 1ft. 6ins. Deceased was struck on the head and died in a few minutes. The fall came form a gob break and a slip at right angles to the face and reeled a prop and a sprag set to the roof from the top of the coal which is holed over or bannocked. The face seemed to have been well timbered but the combination of the slip break and an arched parting in clod forming the roof caused an unusual pressure which the timbering could not withstand.