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Surname
ROSE
Forename
Joshua
Day
09
Month
02
Year
1903
Age
31
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Ashton Moss
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
New Moss Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Audenshaw
County
Lancashire
Details of Event
Fall of coal from working face while holing. Face holed 12 feet in length 2 feet 8 inches under to a slippery back cut on one side one sprag set and this 7 feet from the loose corner. Rules require sprags to be not more than 5 feet apart and loose corner to be spragged. Fireman visited two hours before accident ordered sprags to be set he aught so have seen loose corner was spragged.