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Surname
POINTON
Forename
James
Day
12
Month
12
Year
1903
Age
40
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Clough Hall, No.6 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Kidsgrove
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
Fall of side (coal) at face of a crosscut between two dips in the Bullhurst seam while holing. The seam lay at an angle of 33 degrees and the coal should have been spragged before he commenced to hole. The fall was liberated from a slip.