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Surname
MATTHEWS
Forename
James
Day
06
Month
04
Year
1911
Age
26
Occupation
Hewer
Mine/Quarry Name
Croxdale
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Weardale Steel, Coal & Coke Co. Ltd
Location
Croxdale & Hett
County
Durham
Details of Event
He was, working with another hewer finishing a lift of which only a stook of coal remained. The place was well timbered. Suddenly a huge piece of post stone, 21 feet long by 18 feet wide by 4 feet thick, fell and killed him. This stone fell mostly in the goaf towards which they were working. In removing the coal the men had exposed a slip running across the lift, and the stone came away from this slip and another running at right angles to it, in an old bord room breaking down or canting out several props.