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Surname
SMITH
Forename
Thomas
Day
23
Month
05
Year
1901
Age
30
Occupation
Wagon Rider
Mine/Quarry Name
Burnhope
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
U.A. Ritson & Sons Ltd
Location
Burnhope
County
Durham
Details of Event
He was tasking a set of six trucks from the colliery to a siding 2.25 miles away and on reaching the siding the rope broke close to the socket and in trying to stop the set he got under the trucks which passed over and both his legs. Died in Newcastle Infirmary two days afterwards.