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Surname
PEACE
Forename
William Ecoch
Day
21
Month
09
Year
1909
Age
25
Occupation
Stallman
Mine/Quarry Name
Swadlincote
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Halls Collieries Ltd
Location
Swadlincote
County
Derbyshire
Details of Event
The men were preparing to leave work for the day, and deceased was collecting the tools used at the far end of the stall at the side of an airway, when a bump came over the place, breaking one prop, pushing out two others, and two tons of the roof fell and killed deceased.