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Surname
JOSEPH
Forename
Speer
Day
24
Month
10
Year
1905
Age
50
Occupation
Stamps watcher
Mine/Quarry Name
South Crofty
Mineral Worked
Tin
Owner
South Crofty Mines Adventurers
Location
Camborne
County
Cornwall
Details of Event
While carrying a balk of timber past the fly-wheel of the stamps engine, he got it entangled in some way, resulting in his falling into the fly-wheel pit, where he was crushed. The fencing of the machinery was apparently in order, but it was broken down by the accident.