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Surname
NORTH
Forename
George
Day
26
Month
04
Year
1906
Age
33
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Monckton Main
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
New Monckton Collieries Ltd
Location
Upper Hiendley
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
When on his way to the shaft bottom at the end of his shift be was overtaken by two full tubs and fatally injured. The two tubs were travelling at 10 or 12 miles an hour owing to a mistake made by a boy at a pass-bye, who, when making up a set of 36 full tubs, had forgotten to couple the second and third one, and the rope, therefore, went away with the two full tubs but the deceased had been told, when the tubs were about 100 yards away, to get out of the way. There were plenty of refuge holes.