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Surname
BENNETT
Forename
Walter
Day
06
Month
04
Year
1908
Age
33
Occupation
Contractor
Mine/Quarry Name
Denaby Main
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Denaby & Cadeby Main Collieries Ltd
Location
Denaby
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
A place was being made for an underground engine house and as preliminary step the shale to a thickness of 6ft. 8ins. was being removed from above the Barnsley seam the intention being when this had advanced far enough, to cut trenches in the coal build the side walls in these trenches and finally remove the block of coal. On a Friday water was thrown on the face of the place and on the following Monday about 16 tubs of shale had fallen. The deceased and another man had filled 11 tubs and were about to move a tub out of the place when a huge piece fell from the face and killed Bennett. The place was 24 t. wide by 6ft. 8ins. and the stone which fell was almost as high and wide as the place and averaged 1ft. 6ins. thick. The fall disclosed converging slips which were not visible before it occurred.