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Surname
LEACH
Forename
Joseph
Day
26
Month
09
Year
1905
Age
19
Occupation
Waggonman
Mine/Quarry Name
Barnsley Main
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Barnsley Main Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Barnsley
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
His duty was to attend to a waggon under the hopper in connection with the coal washer, and when it was full to lower it and let down an empty waggon from a place about three yards from him. He went behind the full waggon for some purpose, and while he was there a waggon which was being brought down, by a waggon lowerer, from the empty sidings, bumped into one standing above him, and it moved slowly down and caught and fatally crushed him. There is a wall on each side of where the waggon was standing under the hopper, the space at one side was only 4 inches, but at the other, where his work was, it was 7 feet 2 inches.