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Surname
SHAW
Forename
Edward
Day
02
Month
06
Year
1905
Age
19
Occupation
Labourer
Mine/Quarry Name
Brackenhill Quarry
Mineral Worked
Sandstone
Owner
Joseph Hanby
Location
Ackworth
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
Helping to pull a large flag, which was on edge, slightly forward when it an two others came over and pinned him between them and some reared up behind him. He was seriously crushed and died 16 hours afterwards in the Clayton Hospital at Wakefield.