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Surname
SHAW
Forename
Frank
Day
28
Month
09
Year
1911
Age
25
Occupation
Sinker
Mine/Quarry Name
Lofthouse
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lofthouse Colliery Co.
Location
Outwood
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
He and five other men were working at the bottom of a sinking pit which had just reached the coal seam, when the wrought iron ventilation pipes, 76 yards in length, became detached, and fell to the, bottom killing Shaw and seriously injuring one of his companions.