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Surname
KNIGHT
Forename
Stephen
Day
12
Month
08
Year
1914
Age
62
Occupation
Dataller
Mine/Quarry Name
Tunnel Pits
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Haunchwood Collieries Ltd
Location
Galley Common
County
Warwickshire
Details of Event
Deceased and another were engaged in withdrawing by means of a safety contrivance, a disused prop which bad been buried by the rising floor to a depth of two feet. The Sylvester chain had been attached to one of four steel girders that were resting on a mouthing bar 9 feet long which had been set for some three months. After using the ratchet lever for about one and a half minutes, the whole of the girders collapsed, No roof fell. The girder on which the chain was secured was probably drawn from off the prop at the opposite end, and in falling pushed the mouthing bar off the inbye support. The mouthing bar was snapped about 3 feet from the outbye end, probably as the result of the girders falling on it. One of the girders fell upon deceased and killed him instantly.