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Surname
SPEIGHT
Forename
John William
Day
25
Month
11
Year
1913
Age
51
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Frickley
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Carlton Main Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
South Elmsall
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
Deceased was engaged in ripping a gate road. After taking down a small portion of soft coal he began to fall the coal into a tub, and while so occupied a fall of stone occurred from the upper part of the ripping and killed him. The fall came away from joins in the stone opened up, no doubt by removing the coal underneath. The road was 9 feet wide by fully 9 feet high, and the face of the ripping being in line with a branch road to the left (which tended to weaken the strata), it would have been safer to have secured the lip of the bind by a stay, tightened against the nearest crown, or set sprag fashion from the floor.