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Surname
BLAKEWELL
Forename
Isaac
Day
09
Month
01
Year
1905
Age
43
Occupation
Ripper
Mine/Quarry Name
Grimethorpe
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Carlton Main Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Grimethorpe
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
He and another man were ripping the roof and setting bars where required. He had made a scaffold upon the top of a tub on which he was kneeling and in the act of withdrawing a drill from a shothole in the ripping, when, without warning, a large piece of roof fell upon and killed him instantly.