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Surname
PEERS
Forename
Thomas
Day
25
Month
10
Year
1906
Age
22
Occupation
Contractors Man
Mine/Quarry Name
Bickershaw, No.4 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Ackers, Whitley & Co. Ltd
Location
Bickershaw
County
Lancashire
Details of Event
Inspection made and inquest attended. He was about to put a new prop under a bar, in the main haulage road, and had been advised by the contractor to set a middle leg; but when removing a little dirt away, the bar fell with the roof above, and was he was fatally injured.