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Surname
TALBOT
Forename
Daniel
Day
20
Month
05
Year
1908
Age
56
Occupation
Dataller
Mine/Quarry Name
Bickershaw
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Ackers, Whitley & Co. Ltd
Location
Bickershaw
County
Lancashire
Details of Event
When engaged in a haulage brow removing a fall, which had damaged three tubs. One of the tubs had been sent up the haulage road, and the other two had been spragged up. The haulage rope running over the tubs caused the sprag to give way, and deceased got crushed by the tubs running back.