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Surname
KEIGHLEY
Forename
Tom
Day
10
Month
05
Year
1907
Age
16
Occupation
Haulage Lad
Mine/Quarry Name
Middleton Main
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Middleton Estate & Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Middleton
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
It was his duty to watch the tubs, rope and pulleys at a slight curve in a haulage road in order that a signal might be given if anything was out of order. A bye-workman, who was laying rails in a cross gate out of the haulage road saw the deceased and spoke to him he noted him walk in-bye looking at the pulleys in the ordinary way and about two minutes afterwards hard him shout. The rope was stopped as quickly as possible and the man went to the lad. He found him upon his side under the first of two full tubs and the tub had run into the road side. His lamp was lying upon the side three yards in front. The only explanation of the accident is that the lad caught his clog against a sleeper when walking by the side of the full tubs and stumbled in front. The haulage road was a good one being 11 feet wide and 6 feet 6 inches wide and the endless rope haulage speed was about two miles per hour.