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Surname
LOCKWOOD
Forename
Herbert
Day
01
Month
12
Year
1905
Age
34
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Monk Bretton
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Monk Bretton Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Monk Bretton
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
He was hewing in the Barnsley Seam and had the dirt spragged up for length of 6ft. by 2ft wide, and working the coal away underneath this dirt exposed a slip which could be seen before, and the dirt and some coal fell and displaced the timber. He was caught by the fall and fatal crushed between it and a tub which was being filled at the time.