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Surname
NICHOLSON
Forename
Robert
Day
05
Month
10
Year
1904
Age
66
Occupation
Chargeman
Mine/Quarry Name
Seaton Delaval
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Seaton Delaval Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Seaton Delaval
County
Northumberland
Details of Event
Died October 14th. Deceased was cutting in the floor of a coal seam to take the road across a small rise trouble handing balks of timber, 6ins. square and from 4 feet to 6 feet long a man who was building a chock in the seam above him. Immediately after handing one of the balks he was taken ill and lay on his back in the cutting. He apparently recovered finishing his shift and visiting some places with the master shifter to whom he made no mention of the attack. He worked no more and next day the doctor found him suffering from strangulated hernia complicated by a previous rupture. An operation on the 12th was apparently successful but peritonitis supervened from which he died.