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- Surname
- RATCLIFFE
- Forename
- Robert
- Day
- 16
- Month
- 12
- Year
- 1903
- Age
- 23
- Occupation
- Quarrier
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Hollow Head Quarry
- Mineral Worked
- Sandstone
- Owner
- T.W. Peacock & Sons
- Location
- County
- Lancashire
- Details of Event
- Premature explosion of a charge of powder 3 gallons of powder 6 feet deep and 3 inches in depth two fuses, one 6 inches in length the other 12 inches in stemming on the powder. One fire to the fuse by a hot iron from the fuses must have been dropped into the hole and fired the powder. The men were not smoking. In future stemming will he put on the place.
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