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Surname
SELWAY
Forename
James
Day
23
Month
10
Year
1911
Age
54
Occupation
Examiner
Mine/Quarry Name
Clutton
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Greyfield Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Clutton
County
Somersetshire
Details of Event
Deceased was assisting other to send away a train of five loaded tubs from the passbye at a junction. He told the incline-rider to give the signal to start and he would put on the drag. When the train had left the junction and ascended the incline about 10 yards the couple between the first and second tubs became detached. The drag failed to hold the four tubs, which ran back and jumped the rails at the curve of the junction Deceased was pinned between the tubs and a bar leg the coupler was of the D type, and the jaw of the D was strained. It is probable that owing to the strained jaw the pin had not been properly inserted.