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Surname
LEECH
Forename
John
Day
26
Month
05
Year
1903
Age
36
Occupation
Buttocker
Mine/Quarry Name
Grange (b)
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Robert Heath & Sons Ltd
Location
Cobridge
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
Fall of side (ironstone) at longwall face in Redshagg seam. He was pulling stone off the face with a crow bar when a piece of the top section of the seam which does not usually come down with the stone fell from an unseen slip and struck his head.