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Surname
SHIELDS
Forename
John Thomas
Day
02
Month
02
Year
1903
Age
17
Occupation
Runrider
Mine/Quarry Name
Lumley
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lambton Collieries Ltd
Location
Great Lumley
County
Durham
Details of Event
An empty set going inbye caught tubs filled with ballast which been carelessly left on the road and took them in on the font of an empty set. He saw them coming down at the start of an incline and ran to signal the hauling engineman to stop when the first ballast tub overturned and caught and killed him.