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Surname
KILNER
Forename
Henry
Day
04
Month
07
Year
1907
Age
31
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Orgreave
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Rothervale Collieries Ltd
Location
Handsworth
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
For a short time he had been holing from the tub road at the face at the end of a piece of coal, which had previously been holed when a piece of coal came away to a weight break which could not be seen over a sprag and caught him. He was so severely injured that he died in the Sheffield Infirmary on the 7th inst.