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Surname
BERTRAM
Forename
Robert
Day
10
Month
02
Year
1911
Age
28
Occupation
Hewer
Mine/Quarry Name
Brandon
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Strakers & Love
Location
Brandon & Byshottles
County
Durham
Details of Event
He was hewing in a bordways gateway in a seam only 18 inches thick. The face had advanced past a slip in the roof, running parallel with the coal. The deputy told him to be careful, and left him hewing with a prop close to the coal. He was kirving in the bottom of the seam, and worked back to another slip 3 feet 6 inches from the first, when the weight of stone between these slips burst down the top coal and the stone fell on to him. This stone was 6 feet long, 3 feet 6 inches wide, and 12 inches thick. It had canted out the prop set by the deputy.