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Surname
MOON
Forename
Albert
Day
19
Month
12
Year
1906
Age
15
Occupation
Hitchers Boy
Mine/Quarry Name
Radstock, Wellsway
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Earl of Waldegrave
Location
Radstock
County
Somersetshire
Details of Event
He with others, was travelling down the incline leading to the shaft, about 70 yards long with a moderate gradient. He and another Boy had taken refuge in a manhole to allow the full journey to pass, but being apparently in a hurry he left without a light, expecting to overtake some of the others who had gone further on, he however was caught by the empty journey and thrown into a manhole so seriously injured that he died in the mine. Neither _ nor boys should be allowed, as seems the practice, when coming out from work to travel without a light.