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Surname
BENT
Forename
Richard
Day
26
Month
03
Year
1901
Age
45
Occupation
Brakeman
Mine/Quarry Name
Eatock
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Wigan Coal & Iron Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Hindley
County
Lancashire
Details of Event
In a gale of wind whilst getting off the buffer of one of a train of waggons either slipped clothes caught or overbalanced or by force of wind fell so that the slowly moving wagon crushed his head. Accident occurred on branch line one mile from pit.