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Surname
LANCASTER
Forename
John
Day
30
Month
04
Year
1903
Age
24
Occupation
Loader
Mine/Quarry Name
Whitfield
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Chatterley-Whitfield Collieries Ltd
Location
Norton in the Moors
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
Fall of side (coal) at longwall face in Cockshead seam. The Seam was 7 feet 6 inches thick and a piece of coal 4 feet 6 inches by 1 foot 10 inches by 9 inches burst off the opposite where he was loading a tub and struck him on the head. There was a goth where the foal fell. Stretchers from posts were set to support the face up to the place where the accident happened at which point the loose coal was not sufficiently removed for a post to be set.