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Surname
KING
Forename
William
Day
30
Month
10
Year
1913
Age
46
Occupation
Stoneman
Mine/Quarry Name
North Seaton
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Cowpen Coal Co. Ltd
Location
North Seaton
County
Northumberland
Details of Event
Deceased and his marrow were preparing for a shot in the top canch of a crossheading, and were setting breaking off timber. Coal cutters were used on the face and the roof cuts off regularly each fall. A stone, 15 feet by 2 feet by 5 feet, rolled off the pack from one of these breaks, knocked out the timber in the crossheading, and killed him instantly. A shot had been fired in an adjoining place, 20 minutes before, and this may have shaken the stone.