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Surname
KNOTT
Forename
Henry
Day
30
Month
08
Year
1912
Age
53
Occupation
Quarryman
Mine/Quarry Name
New Corsham
Mineral Worked
Oolitic Limestone
Owner
Bath & Dorset Quarries Ltd
Location
Corsham
County
Wiltshire
Details of Event
The accident occurred in the workings of the Bath stone, which is here 30 feet in thickness and has a cover of 61 feet, more than half of which consists of beds of bastard rook. Deceased was bannocking in a place 10 feet in width and 7.5 feet in height when a mass of stone measuring 13 feet by 10 feet at extremes, and 13.5 inches in thickness at centre, thinning out nearly all round, suddenly fell upon him, and caused injuries to which he succumbed shortly afterwards. The roof had been examined and sounded with a heavy iron tool on the previous day. It was formed by the rag bed, which was generally a fairly strong bastard rock, and the fall revealed no slips or bedding planes. The place was not ‘on weight,’ and there was no indication of crushing of the pillars. The rag bed had probably been saturated and soured by recent continuous rains.