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Surname
BRACKEN
Forename
Cuthbert
Day
12
Month
11
Year
1902
Age
15
Occupation
Wheel Boy
Mine/Quarry Name
Willington
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Starkers & Love
Location
Willington
County
Durham
Details of Event
He attached two full tubs to the endless rope and was riding on the front of the tubs. At a junction 40 yards away a knock-off is fixed through which the rope passes and he was caught between this the tubs the rope and decapitated.