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Surname
SIMPSON
Forename
Matthew
Day
07
Month
10
Year
1904
Age
33
Occupation
Hewer
Mine/Quarry Name
Littletown
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lambton Collieries Ltd
Location
Little Town
County
Durham
Details of Event
He and his marrow were hewing in a wall and after they had got a shot ready to fire he went back to get some tokens which he had left in a bord which was fenced off however he went under or over it and when at the face a shot was fired in another wall and blew it through into the bord he was in and the coal caught him on the head and killed him.