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Surname
MUNFORD
Forename
Henry
Day
01
Month
02
Year
1909
Age
23
Occupation
Sinker
Mine/Quarry Name
Cannop
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Cannop Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Speech House Road
County
Gloucestershire
Details of Event
In consequence of the pumps in the bottom of the shaft, which is in course of sinking, preventing the hoppet dropping down perpendicularly for the last 13 or 14 yards, it appears to have been considered desirable to have a rider travelling on the hoppet. Deceased was a rider, and had acted as such for a year or longer and on the present occasion was performing his duties as such. He appears to have come up about 40 yards from the bottom to where an electric hump, 117 yards from the surface, is installed and where there is a staging in the shaft. At this point the hoppet "appears to have caught under one of the girders and thrown him out, the exact circumstances being only surmised. If ho steadied the hoppet properly above the bottom pumps before signalling it away, the accident should not have occurred, but apparently he must have started before it was steady.