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Surname
MURRAY
Forename
Edward
Day
02
Month
01
Year
1909
Age
31
Occupation
Ashwheeler
Mine/Quarry Name
Horden
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Horden Collieries Ltd
Location
Horden
County
Durham
Details of Event
These two men and a third went to bring a truck of coal down from the sidings to the boiler fire-holes. They uncoupled the first truck but omitted to see that the second truck was made fast. It crept away and overtook them crushing these two men who were pushing at the buffers but not injuring the third man who was pushing at the centre bar. The gradient was 1 in 124. 2 killed.