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Surname
LAVIN
Forename
Owen
Day
03
Month
03
Year
1908
Age
42
Occupation
Metalman
Mine/Quarry Name
Wigan Junction
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Wigan Junction Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Abram
County
Lancashire
Details of Event
He was leaning over the top of a water tank to uncouple the main haulage rope, when deceased got fatally crushed under some low part of the roof, owing to the engineman starting the engine. No signal was said to have been given, and it was thought probably something had fallen on the electric wires. The signal to start to be more than one ring in future.