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Surname
SMITH
Forename
Wilfred
Day
20
Month
04
Year
1912
Age
15
Occupation
Motor Driver
Mine/Quarry Name
Pleasley Cross
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Stanton Iron Works Co. Ltd
Location
Pleasley Hill
County
Derbyshire
Details of Event
Deceased was in charge of a 30 H.P. motor driving an endless rope for haulage. He was seen to leave the starting switch and go towards the gearing, and at the time that some coal fell off the tubs on the haulage road into the rope race be was inside the fence. The falling coal made him step back and he was taken into the gearing and fatally crushed.