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Surname
BRITTON
Forename
John
Day
21
Month
08
Year
1914
Age
14
Occupation
Horse Driver
Mine/Quarry Name
Mossfield
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Mossfield Colliery Ltd
Location
Longton
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
Deceased had been employed below ground about one month. He was engaged to drive a horse in connection with a "Ring" gin. At 11.55 a.m. work was suspended for ten minutes throughout the mine, when deceased left his post, and without taking his lamp, followed another person inbye to the bottom of a jig 60 yards distant, and there joined a few other boys and a roadman, who had collected there. At 12.5 p.m., the roadman told the lads to go on with their work, and deceased appears to have been returning without a light to his horse, when he was overtaken by a full tub in charge of a trammer and crushed against the side of the road. He died in hospital the same day.