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- Surname
- SOMMERVILLE
- Forename
- Charles
- Day
- 15
- Month
- 07
- Year
- 1914
- Age
- 19
- Occupation
- Coal Filler
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Parkfield
- Mineral Worked
- Coal
- Owner
- Bedminster, Easton, Kingswood & Parkfield Collieries Ltd
- Location
- Pucklechurch
- County
- Gloucestershire
- Details of Event
- Deceased was ascending in the cage with eight others at the end of his shift, when he apparently fainted, fell into the cage bottom, and dropped out into the shaft. He was subject to fainting fits. The cage was not provided with gates, but had two iron bars across each end, the lower being 2 feet 71.5 inches from the cage bottom and allowing ample room for a man to get through beneath it. Had proper cage gates been fixed the accident would not have occurred. These were provided after the accident.
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