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Surname
BIRTWISTLE
Forename
Adam
Day
23
Month
07
Year
1912
Age
55
Occupation
Dataller
Mine/Quarry Name
Wharton Hall, No.1
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Earl of Ellesmere
Location
Tyldesley
County
Lancashire
Details of Event
With the fireman in an endless rope haulage brow arranging where to begin footridding after the tubs had been run clear, the haulage rope drew out at a splicing. The pit was not working, the fireman ought to have waited until the tubs were run clear, be should not have been in the brow when the rope was in motion.