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Surname
ORD
Forename
Philip
Day
17
Month
12
Year
1912
Age
22
Occupation
Waggonwayman
Mine/Quarry Name
Shotton
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Horden Collieries Ltd
Location
Shotton
County
Durham
Details of Event
He was braking a set down a self-acting incline, when a piece of the brake wheel tread broke off at a butt hole, and falling between the brake strap and the rest of the tread, jammed the wheel ranging the brake handle to fly up. The handle caught deceased under the chin breaking his neck. The fractured tread was of sound metal, but had probably been overstressed in tightening up the bolts.