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Surname
PETER
Forename
William
Day
17
Month
12
Year
1914
Age
35
Occupation
Quarry Foreman
Mine/Quarry Name
Porthoustock Quarry
Mineral Worked
Diorite
Owner
St Keverne Stone Co.
Location
Porthoustock
County
Cornwall
Details of Event
Two or three minutes prior 10 the accident, deceased was observed to be using a pick and picking stones out of a heap near the quarry floor for the stone breakers. He was found lying on his back with the handle of the pick betwixt his legs, and underneath his head was a wedgeshaped stone. He had apparently been in the act of loosening a stone when the pick slipped and he fell backwards, striking his head against the sharp corner of the wedge-shaped stone referred to, and fractured his skull. He died on the same day.