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Surname
PEMBERTON
Forename
Joseph
Day
20
Month
12
Year
1905
Age
48
Occupation
Crutter
Mine/Quarry Name
Brown Lees
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Robert Heath & Sons Ltd
Location
Biddulph
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
The fuses of 8 shots of gunpowder were lighted together in a stone drift. The men retired and heard two explosions. They thought two shots had gone off together and returned to the face and soon after the third shot exploded and injured the chargeman so that he died on the 24th. Dec.