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Surname
MEVITT
Forename
Sidney
Day
07
Month
11
Year
1913
Age
15
Occupation
Pony Driver
Mine/Quarry Name
Garforth
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Owners of Garforth Colliery
Location
Garforth
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
He was walking along a cross-cut from which a bord bank 9 yards wide was being worked, when a piece of roof bind, 7 feet by 5 feet 9 inches by 5.5 inches, weighing about 25 cwt fell upon him and fatally injured him. The roof had been examined about half an hour before and was considered safe. The cause of the fall is not quite clear but was probably due to gas in a thin seam of coal a few feet above, and to a pack being incomplete. No timber was displaced by the fall.