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Surname
PENNY
Forename
William
Day
27
Month
05
Year
1906
Age
31
Occupation
Deputy
Mine/Quarry Name
Ravensworth
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Charles Perkins & Ptrs
Location
Lamesley
County
Durham
Details of Event
Deceased who held an under-manager’s certificate and was very proficient in ambulance work was engaged on a Sunday morning with a stoneman in shooting-down a top caunch of 18 inches of blue metal on the South-east crosscut waggonway in the Beaumont seam of the Shop pit. They made an examination of the place before starting work, and were satisfied all was safe. The machine tree was then set and a distance of 18 inches had been bored when a piece of stone fell from brow, which crossed the place at an angle, 7 feet long, 1.5 feet wide in the centre falling out to nothing each way, 18 inches thick, displacing a prop and headtree in its fall. Deceased was caught by it and instantly killed, his neck was broken. There was a good parting above the stone, but the side next the brow seemed a new break, probably a previous shot had loosened it. The Local Inspector, reported, ‘We are of opinion it has been a pure accident, as we found plenty of timber set and also plenty of timber lying close by.’