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Surname
BOARDMAN
Forename
Robert
Day
02
Month
08
Year
1900
Age
44
Occupation
Contractor
Mine/Quarry Name
Haydock, Princess Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Richard Evans & Co. Ltd
Location
Haydock Green
County
Lancashire
Details of Event
Inspection made and inquest attended. He was a metalman contractor, and was waiting to go up the shaft. The hooker-on knocked for the cage and then left the shaft temporarily to attend to the pit-bottom lamp and when he was getting back he heard a scream the deceased having attempted to get in the middle deck of the cage when it was bring lowered and was fatally injured.