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Surname
SHAW
Forename
Joseph
Day
27
Month
12
Year
1904
Age
57
Occupation
Labourer
Mine/Quarry Name
Fitzwilliam Main [Hemsworth]
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fitzwilliam Hemsworth Collieries Ltd
Location
Fitzwilliam
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
He and another man went between waggon to fasten a bottom door without first warning someone when they were lowering with the result that while they were there another waggon collided with them and deceased in trying to get out was fatally injured. The other man was fortunate to escape unhurt.