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Surname
LOWTHER
Forename
Richard
Day
16
Month
09
Year
1908
Age
29
Occupation
Timber Drawer
Mine/Quarry Name
Newbottle
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lambton Collieries Ltd
Location
Philadelphia
County
Durham
Details of Event
He and his marrow were drawing timber out of an old waggon-way. They had one end of a chain round a prop and the other end round another six or seven yards further outbye. He stood between the two points. On his marrow putting pressure on to the lever to draw out the inbye prop, the roof all came on over six or seven baulks and buried him up. The baulks should have been middle propped and he should have been further away.