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Surname
SMITH
Forename
James William
Day
09
Month
02
Year
1904
Age
31
Occupation
Wagon Driver
Mine/Quarry Name
Killingworth, Lizzie Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Burradon & Coxlodge Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Killingworth
County
Northumberland
Details of Event
Owing to a congestion of wagons deceased was using his horse to draw three empty chaldron wagons down a slight decline back on to the main line along which they had come when nearly far enough and at a point where two rails crossed he was in the act of unhooking the horse's chain when his foot was caught in the angle formed by the junction of the two rails and he was knocked down by the first wagon and it and the one following passed over his leg. The angle between the rails was not filled up as is desirable by a wood block. He was sent off to the Newcastle Infirmary but died on the road.