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Surname
LITTLE
Forename
Fred
Day
27
Month
09
Year
1913
Age
39
Occupation
Stallman
Mine/Quarry Name
Yorkshire Main
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Yorkshire Main Colliery Ltd
Location
Edlington
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
Deceased, aided by another worker, was engaged ripping the roof down in a side gate off a haulage road. Soon after starting work he went to the opposite end to see to the taking down of a bad stone resting on a corner wood pack at the gate entrance .Under his direction his assistant pulled down the stone, and in its fall it struck one of the props carrying a bearing girder and through displacing it, brought down the girder, which killed Little. At the same time his assistant received a broken collar bone. The stone was only 2 feet or so from the prop which it knocked out, and, consequently, an additional prop should have been set to the carrying girder before attempting to take down the stone referred to.