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Surname
RUDGE
Forename
Thomas
Day
27
Month
02
Year
1905
Age
24
Occupation
Byeworker
Mine/Quarry Name
Ackton Hall
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Ackton Hall Colliery Co.
Location
Featherstone
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
Low girders were being taken out and stone down to make height on a driving road and the girders re-set. He and another man had got a girder out and were removing the props which had supported it when a fall of stone occurred and swamped another girder out and killed him. He had a ‘dog and chain’ to draw props but did not use it. If he had done so and set temporary timber to protect himself, the accident in all probability would not have been a fatal one.