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Surname
STEELE
Forename
William
Day
23
Month
01
Year
1913
Age
22
Occupation
Stoneman
Mine/Quarry Name
Malton
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Sir S.A. Sadler Ltd
Location
Lanchester
County
Durham
Details of Event
The deceased men were resetting timber in the return airway for an underground oil engine exhaust They were temporarily enabled to work here as owing to a reversal of the ventilation due to abnormal weather (natural ventilation), the oil engine exhaust was carried another road. Owing to momentary stagnation or reversal of the feeble ventilation, the exhaust fumes hacked on to the two men, who were subsequently found dead. 2 killed.