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Surname
MAJOR
Forename
William
Day
18
Month
09
Year
1905
Age
39
Occupation
Run Rider
Mine/Quarry Name
Wath Main
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Wath Main Collieries Co. Ltd
Location
Wath-upon-Dearne
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
He was riding on the top of the thirty first tub in a train of 38 full tubs which was being brought by the main hauling rope to the shaft bottom, when the tub got off the way at a crossing rail and he was thrown under the tubs, run over and killed. The cause of the tub leaving the rails was probably that it had a bent axle.