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Surname
MARTIN
Forename
Alfred William
Day
16
Month
09
Year
1913
Age
16
Occupation
Brake Boy
Mine/Quarry Name
Southfleet Quarry
Mineral Worked
Owner
Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers (1900) Ltd
Location
County
Kent
Details of Event
Deceased was fatally crushed between a wagon and a face of callow at the top of the quarry, which callow was being removed. Eight wagons filled at various points on the face had been coupled together by deceased, and the train was being drawn slowly out of the face up a gradient of 1 in 30, when deceased was observed standing on the buffers between the fourth and fifth wagon. A moment later he was seen between the wagon and the callow bank on face, and the clearance being only 6 inches he was terribly crushed. Why deceased was on the buffers, and how he fell, there was nothing to show. He had been at this work three weeks, and had not been seen riding on the wagons before. Riding on the buffers of wagons was prohibited.