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Surname
BENTON
Forename
George Alfred
Day
10
Month
04
Year
1909
Age
17
Occupation
Jig lad
Mine/Quarry Name
Holly Bank, Sneyd
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Holly Bank Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Essington
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
The accident occurred at a longwall face in a seam which is 4ft. in thickness with a band of dirt near its centre. It is holed in the dirt the top coal taken down and punch props set on the bottom coal to support the roof until the bottom coal is got up. The stallman knocked out a punch prop to get up some bottom coal and thereby liberated a piece of sandstone 20ft in length by 3ft in width and 8ins. in thickness, which came away suddenly from a false beddling. The stallman was seriously injured and deceased, who had come in from his jig and was apparently trying his hand at holing at the gateway and received injuries to which he succumbed on the same evening.