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Surname
SLEIGH
Forename
Wilfred
Day
23
Month
09
Year
1912
Age
29
Occupation
Screener
Mine/Quarry Name
Conduit, No.4
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Conduit Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Norton Canes
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
Deceased was lowering two wagons to the picking belt. The brakes were on the coal stallage side where the clearance was very little. Deceased put a scotch on the rail, and got in to unpin the brakes, but as soon as he had done so, the wagons started and he was fatally crushed between the stallage and the wagons. Usually two men did this work and deceased ought not to have attempted to do it alone in this case.