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Surname
LIDDIARD
Forename
Thomas E.
Day
01
Month
08
Year
1907
Age
37
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Silverwood
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Dalton Main Collieries Ltd
Location
Thrybergh
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
He and another man were working in a place 9 feet 3 inches wide which was being driven in the solid coal for the purpose of allowing a bord place being carried along the longwall face out of it when a piece of roof stone suddenly burst out and caught him on his back and ractured his spine. The distance at which roof timbers were to he set under the Timbering Special Rules had been exceeded owing to the bottom coal not having been taken up as the face advanced. It is possible if the rules had been complied with that he might have been able to get clear before the stone fell.