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Surname
SMETHURST
Forename
William
Day
30
Month
09
Year
1901
Age
26
Occupation
Daywageman
Mine/Quarry Name
Blackbrook
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Blackbrook Colliery Co.
Location
St Helens
County
Lancashire
Details of Event
Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged clearing away the holing dirt displaced by an electrical heading machine when his foot slipped on a wet stone floor and his leg was caught by the revolving cutters and he was drawn in and fatally injured. He expired at the Haydock Hospital the same night.