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Surname
LANYON
Forename
James
Day
05
Month
07
Year
1912
Age
41
Occupation
Timberman
Mine/Quarry Name
Wheal Carne
Mineral Worked
Tin
Owner
Geevor Tin Mines Ltd
Location
Pendeen
County
Cornwall
Details of Event
He and another were "spilling" along an old adit level were they were working the sides were of decomposed granite and were weak. The level supports consisted of stull pieces hitched in the hanging and foot walls, and over these supports the piles were driven. The last stull piece, which was about 2 feet from the dirt, had been set with rather less pitch than usual and the bottom ledge of the hitch in the hanging wall was only half an inch deep. At the time of the accident, Lanyon was cutting a hitch in the hanging wall, for another stull piece when a big fall of ground about 4 feet above him fell from the wall knocked out the last stull piece and pinned him under it. The loose stone had been noticed at the commencement of the shift but it was thought that it would not fall. If legs had been set under the stull pieces the accident would probably not have happened.