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Surname
NEWSOME
Forename
Sam
Day
31
Month
03
Year
1904
Age
50
Occupation
Enginewright
Mine/Quarry Name
Shaw Cross
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Crawshaw & Warburton Ltd
Location
Dewsbury
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
He got into one of the buckets of a slack elevator to examine a damaged one when by some misunderstanding a man gave a signal to the engineman to start the elevator and deceased was carried up to the top of it and fatally crushed.