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Surname
STORRS
Forename
J.H.
Day
08
Month
01
Year
1910
Age
15
Occupation
Labourer
Mine/Quarry Name
Wharncliffe Woodmoor
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Wharncliffe Woodmoor Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Carlton
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
He fell between the buffers of wagons which were being lowered by gravity, and was fatally crushed. When examined by the doctors at Barnsley Hospital symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning were discovered. He had inhaled the gas either from the coke which was being quenched near the place of accident, or from a fire over which he had been sitting. The gas poisoning probably caused him to faint and fall.