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Surname
TEASDALE
Forename
Wilfred
Day
27
Month
09
Year
1913
Age
14
Occupation
Screen Boy
Mine/Quarry Name
Leasingthorne
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. Ltd
Location
Coundon
County
Durham
Details of Event
Deceased had a dual duty, to pick stones out of coal at a picking belt and to keep clear small coal spilt over the sides of the troughs in which worm conveyors operated. When leaving the latter work to go to the former he fell into a trough and was frightfully mangled. He was killed before the machinery could be stopped. He was employed amongst moving machinery where no person should have worked, much less a child of 14 years.