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Surname
ODELL
Forename
Leonard
Day
17
Month
03
Year
1914
Age
26
Occupation
Quarryman
Mine/Quarry Name
Elstow Quarry
Mineral Worked
Clay
Owner
Forder & Son Ltd
Location
Bedford
County
Bedfordshire
Details of Event
At the end of the shift, the deceased was assisting in shovelling loose clay from the ground into a wagon, when a block of solid clay weighing about two tons, fell from a pillar at the side of a shute and fatally crushed him to the ground. It came away from an unseen slip six feet up the face.