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Surname
BESTALL
Forename
Arthur
Day
03
Month
11
Year
1910
Age
17
Occupation
Pony Driver
Mine/Quarry Name
Darfield Main
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Mitchell Main Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Darfield
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
Wilkinson was engaged with another man building a pack between the ends of two gates that had converged at the coal face. Whilst he and his mate were tipping a tub of stone there was a severe bump which displaced three bars, and caused a large fall of roof, under which he and Bestall, who was standing beside the tub, were buried. Wilkinson’s mate had a narrow escape. The place was well timbered and packed with stone packing and several timber cogs, but it was at the narrow side of a barrier of coal which was being worked between two lines of goaf. The barrier, originally about 38 yards wide, had been reduced to a width of about 20 yards at its widest part and ran out to a narrow end at the gate where the accident occurred. The manager decided to abandon the working as a similar accident happened near the place on 27th September, and the conditions made the securing of the reef very difficult. 2 killed.