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Surname
BROCKLEHURST
Forename
John Thomas
Day
28
Month
11
Year
1911
Age
66
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Birley, East
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Sheffield Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Woodhouse
County
Derbyshire
Details of Event
The two men started that day to work away a pillar which had been left to support the engine plane, and had only been at work 1.25 hours, and had exposed the new roof for a length of 2 feet 6 inches, when it broke over a newly set sprag put up to support it, and killed both men. The part of the roof which fell pushed off some, of the coal under it and exposed a break, so that the whole weight of 3 tons which fell was only supported by one spragging prop set by one of the deceased men. 2 killed.