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- Surname
- BOOTH
- Forename
- Harry
- Day
- 22
- Month
- 08
- Year
- 1910
- Age
- 16
- Occupation
- Pony Driver
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Wingfield Manor
- Mineral Worked
- Coal
- Owner
- Wingfield Manor Colliery Co.
- Location
- Oakerthorpe
- County
- Derbyshire
- Details of Event
- He was assisting a corporal to remove a small fall of roof stone which had occurred a few minutes earlier, when he was knocked down and severely injured by a second fall. He died shortly after arriving at the hospital. Timber should have been set whilst the fall was being removed and the corporal did not make a proper examination of the roof.
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