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Surname
KENNY
Forename
Denis
Day
30
Month
04
Year
1910
Age
27
Occupation
Sinker
Mine/Quarry Name
Yorkshire Main
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Staveley Coal & Iron Co. Ltd
Location
Edlington
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
He was on a suspended scaffold in a sinking pit with a number of other men who had been repairing a water ring. The scaffold was being lowered from a capstan engine and the engineman failed to get the clutches of one drum home. The result was that the scaffold tilted and the deceased fell to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 59 feet.