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Surname
PENLINGTON
Forename
Benjamin
Day
29
Month
11
Year
1904
Age
24
Occupation
Dataller
Mine/Quarry Name
Talk-o'-th'-Hill
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Talk-o'-th'-Hill Colliery Ltd
Location
Talke
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
Fall of roof (rock) while repairing a crut. Deceased was taking out a bar from under a large piece of overhanging rock in order to reset it when the rock broke off from side of road and fell on him. It was partly liberate, by an unseen slip.