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Surname
ROCHE
Forename
Patrick
Day
25
Month
04
Year
1907
Age
29
Occupation
Dataller
Mine/Quarry Name
Bank, No.4 (Pretoria) Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Hulton Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Westhoughton
County
Lancashire
Details of Event
Attempting to leave the cage after it had started from the surface to descend he was cut in two by the top hoop of the cage and the edges of the landing plates. The last of 16 men who entered the cage he stood at the end when the banksman shouted ‘Down to Trencherbone’ deceased realised he was in the wrong cage he should have got into the cage to go to the Arley. Gates at the end of cage would have prevented this loss of life. They have since been applied.