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Surname
PINDER
Forename
Joseph
Day
24
Month
01
Year
1909
Age
34
Occupation
Labourer
Mine/Quarry Name
Dean & Chapter
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. Ltd
Location
Ferryhill
County
Durham
Details of Event
He was standing on a platform near the edge looking at some object during the time an aerial ropeway was standing. When the rope began to move, in empty bucket, which he himself had attached to the rope, moving forward struck him in the back and he fell to the ground 26 feet below and broke his skull.