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Surname
SPROSTON
Forename
Enoch
Day
18
Month
07
Year
1910
Age
30
Occupation
Brakesman
Mine/Quarry Name
Whitfield
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Chatterley-Whitfield Collieries Ltd
Location
Norton in the Moors
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
Sproston was crushed between a waggon at rest, standing nearly foul of a crossing at a junction, and a train of waggons which were being lowered down slowly on an adjoining line. Sproston knew the waggons were foul at the junction and had warned an assistant not to attempt to pass between them.