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Surname
SHIPLEY
Forename
Ralph
Day
21
Month
10
Year
1908
Age
24
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Talk-o'-th'-Hill
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Talk-o'-th'-Hill Colliery Ltd
Location
Talke
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
The two deceased and another collier were all at work at the face of a breasting in the Ten Feet Seam. The level behind the face was timbered with 8ft bars (on legs) at intervals of 2ft 6ins. the sides of the road were formed by continuous chocking 6ft. wide. At 9am. without the slightest warning about 8yds of the roof collapsed and fell to a height of 6ft above the ordinary roof level. The fall reached right up to the face and came from three slips one parallel to the face and one running along either side of the level along the edges of the chocks. Carter was released and taken from the pit about 4pm., but it was 2am on the 22nd before it was possible to release the remaining two. None of the three appeared to have been seriously injured except Carter who was suffering from a fractured thigh. The two deceased died from shock and exhaustion early on the following day. The work of rescue was most tedious and attended with considerable danger for a road had to be made over the top of the fall and the debris removed from against the face and carried back to make a passage to the imprisoned men. 2 killed.