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Surname
RIGG
Forename
Alfred
Day
07
Month
06
Year
1907
Age
24
Occupation
Byeworker
Mine/Quarry Name
Featherstone Main
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
South Kirkby, Featherstone & Hemsworth Collieries Ltd
Location
Featherstone
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
Deceased and other three men were straightening a gate by removing a pack from one side and placing it on the other, under the charge of a well experienced man, when a bump took place and a piece of stone 6 feet 4 inches long by 3 feet 7 inches wide by 4 inches thick at the one side and trailing to a feather edge at the other, flashed out of the rock roof and caught arid fatally injured him. He died the following day. A barrier of coal was being left between this and neighbouring colliery on one side of the gate, and this no doubt had something to do with the accident.