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Surname
TARGETT
Forename
James
Day
03
Month
12
Year
1912
Age
47
Occupation
Quarryman
Mine/Quarry Name
Emborough Mendip Quarry
Mineral Worked
Limestone
Owner
Emborough Stone Co. Ltd
Location
Emborough
County
Somersetshire
Details of Event
When helping to fill a waggon some 9 yards from the face of the quarry, about 50 or 60 tons of rock fell off the top of the face, and he was so severely injured that he died in hospital the following day. He and his son had examined and stood on the rock which subsequently fell, within two hours of the accident, and were satisfied as to its condition. The beds, however, were dipping at a high angle towards the quarry bottom, and they should have been worked in broader and lower steps than was the case.