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- Surname
- SLATHERTHWAITE
- Forename
- William
- Day
- 14
- Month
- 04
- Year
- 1908
- Age
- 40
- Occupation
- Drifter
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Aldwarke Main
- Mineral Worked
- Coal
- Owner
- John Brown & Co. Ltd
- Location
- Parkgate
- County
- Yorkshire WR
- Details of Event
- He was assisting to set a prop under the end of a steel girder supporting the roof of a road, and, while doing so was standing under a wooden bar 6ft. away. As soon as the prop under the girder was hit to tighten it a fall of roof occurred, breaking the bar under which he was standing and displacing the girder.
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