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Surname
MOBBS
Forename
Thomas Davis
Day
17
Month
11
Year
1912
Age
39
Occupation
Stoneman
Mine/Quarry Name
Rotherham Main
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
John Brown & Co. Ltd
Location
Rotherham
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
He had been timbering some heavy ground in front of some arching on main level and was standing on a scaffold 5 feet high, when the timbering above collapsed and he was hurled under three tons of soft ground that fell from the sides, and was suffocated.