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Surname
NICHOLSON
Forename
Thomas
Day
31
Month
07
Year
1906
Age
41
Occupation
Quarryman
Mine/Quarry Name
Gascow Quarry
Mineral Worked
Limestone
Owner
A.H. Strongitharm
Location
County
Lancashire
Details of Event
The baring is about 5 feet thick, and had been removed for a distance of 10 feet back from the quarry face. On the day of the accident a charge of 10lbs. of powder had been put into a crack at the top of the quarry and fired. The effect of this was to further loosen a big stone and deceased and two other men were directed by the foreman to bar down this lump in the dinner hour. They tried with a level 12 feet long and an ordinary crowbar but failing to move it deceased one of the other men stepped on the stone (which was only 18 inches below the top of the quarry) to remove some small loose pieces of stone with the object of obtaining a leverage at another point. They had just got on to the stone when it suddenly gave way and deceased was precipitated with it to the bottom of the quarry, a distance of 60ft The other man was able to scramble hack on to the solid ground.