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Surname
McDONNELL
Forename
Michael
Day
03
Month
02
Year
1906
Age
22
Occupation
Dataller
Mine/Quarry Name
Westleigh, Heyfield Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Westleigh Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Westleigh
County
Lancashire
Details of Event
In a narrow place passing through faults practically a stone heading, the leading man preparing to fix his drilling machine prop deceased shovelling some loose dirt back, a stone came away from a fault slip on to him stone 5 feet by 4 feet and 12 inches in thickness at the slip feathering to edge towards the face. The stone ought to have been pulled down. (Roof, bad locally).