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Surname
PARKER
Forename
N.
Day
01
Month
12
Year
1905
Age
17
Occupation
Hurrier
Mine/Quarry Name
Strawberry Bank
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Liversedge Coal Co.
Location
Liversedge
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
It was his first shift at this pit and he left the ace with a full tub after being instructed by the collier how to proceed. He had gone down a stone drift, dipping 1 in 12, some 240 yards and was near to some stop blocks. In trying to pull up the tub he doubtless twisted it against the rails when it jumped and knocked out a prop and a stone followed the prop and dropped upon the tub and then slid on to him. Died on the 4th inst.