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Surname
RICHARDSON
Forename
Samuel
Day
13
Month
01
Year
1909
Age
14
Occupation
Helper Up
Mine/Quarry Name
Trimdon Grange
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Walter Scott Ltd
Location
Trimdon Grange
County
Durham
Details of Event
He went into a place with the putter to help to bring a full tub away. He stood on one side of the road, a few yards on the out-bye side of the tub. The putter lifted the tub away but when it got on to the second length of plates it stopped. The putter asked the hewer to help him pull the tub back but the hewer instead went past the side of the tub and then saw the boy lying on his back with one leg beneath the tub and the other by the side of the way the was bleeding from the temple and the back of his head. Either he had been pulling at the out-bye end of the tub and had fallen down, or the bad been knocked down by the tub. His skull was fractured and he died when being carried out of the mine.