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Surname
ROGERS
Forename
John
Day
03
Month
11
Year
1910
Age
57
Occupation
Cager
Mine/Quarry Name
Aldridge, No.2
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Aldridge Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Aldridge
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
Deceased was assistant cager at the bottom of a shaft 400 yards deep. While he was running two full tubs on to the cage, something fell down the shaft, ricocheting off the cage cover and struck him on the head, cracking his skull. He died 17 days later from septic meningitis, the result of his injuries. The cages were double decked, with sparred sides and decks. When the accident happened, the banksmen were taking the last two tubs off the cage which had just ascended, and presumably a piece of coal had fallen off the cage bottom. At the inquest the cager stated that pieces of coal might be heard falling off the cage cover a dozen times in the day and when I visited the colliery after the accident I found the cage decks strewn with pieces of coal which had fallen off the tubs. The accident was chiefly attributed to carelessness on the part of the banksmen, in not keeping the decks clean. I suggested that the cage bottom and sides should be plated, or sparred so closely that coal could not fall through.