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Surname
ROGERS
Forename
Joseph
Day
31
Month
05
Year
1900
Age
48
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Linnyshaw, Brassey
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Bridgewater Trustees
Location
Worsley
County
Lancashire
Details of Event
A charge of amvis 8 ounces in a hole in the roof for a ripping shot after several attempts to fire by electricity was abandoned by the fireman as a missed shot. He saw deceased on his way to work in the place and directed that a new hole be drilled for 9 inches from the old one. The new one was started under 6 inches from the old one and so directed that it entered the old one and passed along the old hole a foot 2 or 3 inches into the explosive when the drill struck the detonator firing the charge. Rogers who was under the roof and the hole was so injured that he died the next morning.