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Surname
PATRICK
Forename
Charles Wheately
Day
05
Month
11
Year
1907
Age
57
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Featherstone Main
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
South Kirkby, Featherstone & Hemsworth Collieries Ltd
Location
Featherstone
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
In travelling to the shaft at the end of his shift he was passing down an endless rope self-acting incline on which the rope had been stopped when some ponies passing between the tub caused the clip of one of the sets of tubs to be liberated from the rope, owing to the stretcher of their tail chains catching it and two full tubs ran down the road. He stepped into the full road and the tubs caught and fatally crushed him between them and the next set of full tubs on the rope. The drivers of the ponies should have been leading them but were not doing so.