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Surname
MANSFIELD
Forename
Samuel
Day
26
Month
08
Year
1910
Age
52
Occupation
Pikeman
Mine/Quarry Name
Red Hill.
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Harris Noah
Location
Dudley
County
Worcestershire
Details of Event
Deceased was working 30 yards from the shaft in a gate road in the Thick Coal which had old gob on one side when the place weighted and a fall occurred, followed by the closing in of the old gob. He was knocked face downwards and fastened by the legs, and a further fall covered him almost to the waist. Efforts to release him proved ineffectual and he succumbed three hours later death being due to suffocation, accelerated by the heat of the place, which was excessive. The body was set out two hours after death.