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Surname
STRINGER
Forename
George
Day
03
Month
12
Year
1906
Age
26
Occupation
Labourer
Mine/Quarry Name
Newmarket Silkstone
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
J. & J. Charlesworth Ltd
Location
Stanley
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
He and other three men had got their time boards at the Colliery and were sent to the Shipping Staithes about half-a-mile away. When about 460 yards on the way the other men missed him, but thought nothing of it. Two lots of loaded wagons were being lowered by brakes down a gradient of about 1 in 80 at the time, and, owing to it being wet and the rails greasy, one of them ran off at a railway switch, and the other, consisting of 9 wagons, was switched into a siding in which there were 82 loaded wagons. For some reason the deceased had been getting through under one of these wagons, and when the nine bumped into them they were moved forward about half a wagon length, and his legs ware caught by one of the wheels and both thighs were broken. Died on the 5th. There was plenty of room about these sidings. He should not have attempted to pass under the wagons to get at the other side of the railroad, as there was a free way at both ends of them.