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Surname
SAWYER
Forename
Henry
Day
10
Month
01
Year
1907
Age
43
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Shelton, Deep Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Shelton Iron, Steel & Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Hanley
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
Deceased, who was contractor for the section, and reputed to he an exceptionally careful and skilful miner was cleaning up some soft dirt in front of an unholed longwall face in a seam about 4ft. in thickness, when a rate or slab of coal 6 feet long 2ft thick at top, diminishing to a few inches at bottom, came away from a slip joint in the coal sat down, and toppled over against crushing his head against a prop. The place was in faulty ground but the slip had not been detected previously.