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Surname
OLDHAM
Forename
George
Day
12
Month
11
Year
1911
Age
43
Occupation
Hewer
Mine/Quarry Name
Dean & Chapter
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. Ltd
Location
Ferryhill
County
Durham
Details of Event
He was working with another hewer in a bord 5 yards wide. The seam contained a stone band 2ft 4ins thick. They had fired a sumping shot in the bottom coal and had set a prop and headtree, under the bandstone. Oldham was filling away the last of the coals from the shot when the banstone suddenly fell away from some slips and killed him. The slips sloped towards each other in an upward direction, and the prop and headtree were canted out.