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Surname
PICKEN
Forename
John
Day
07
Month
12
Year
1910
Age
15
Occupation
Screenboy
Mine/Quarry Name
Whitfield
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Chatterley-Whitfield Collieries Ltd
Location
Norton in the Moors
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
This boy was employed to pick dirt from a cobble-belt on a staging over the sidings. He left his work for some purpose unknown, and was found dead on the railway under the screens about an hour and a half later. He had been run over by an empty railway wagon gravitating slowly down into its position under the shoots from the screens.