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Surname
SHUTT
Forename
John
Day
13
Month
08
Year
1913
Age
14
Occupation
Flag Boy
Mine/Quarry Name
Wingate Quarry
Mineral Worked
Limestone
Owner
Wingate Limestone Co. Ltd
Location
Wingate
County
Durham
Details of Event
It was the duty of this boy to guard a road over the quarry, and also to keep an account of the wagons filled close at hand. Deceased was seen at 4.10 p.m. on the railway in the quarry bottom. He was then near a disused staging by means of which stone had once been delivered, from a drift above, down a spout into wagons. The siding near the spout is still used; where a wagon had been left with the brake down. A quarryman heard cries for help, and on going to the place found deceased lying between the rails of the siding right under the gantry. It is supposed that he had got upon the wagon and released the brake, and whilst trying to get off the wagon he was crushed between it and a post, there being only a space of 5 inches between them. He died on 21st August.