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Surname
TALLON
Forename
John
Day
26
Month
06
Year
1903
Age
31
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Falcon
Mineral Worked
Iron Ore
Owner
Wyndham Mining Co. Ltd
Location
Egremont
County
Cumberland
Details of Event
The ore here lies between the older grits and the super incumbent limestone extending into the latter formation as guts and irregular masses which had been worked upwards near the place of accident leaving small areas of ore as a thin bed and deceased and his mate were following such a deposit away from the side of an old road the floor of which was grit and t he roof and sides (above the ore) limestone. The overman examined the place half an hour before the accident and told them to put in two props, and they were preparing a footing for them when a mass of limestone weighing over 9 tons snapped off from the face above the ore killing deceased instantly.