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Surname
THOMAS
Forename
Kendrick
Day
12
Month
07
Year
1906
Age
32
Occupation
Engineman
Mine/Quarry Name
Whitwood
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
H. Briggs, Son & Co. Ltd
Location
Whitwood
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
His work was to attend the screen engine and to look after the screening machinery. No coal was passing over the Best Coal belt, and the men were at the next one. Two heard an unusual noise, and on looking round saw the deceased being whirled round the shafting which drives the jigging screen. He had apparently been standing upon the moving picking belt and been caught by the bolt ends in a coupling-box of the shaft, which revolved at 110 revolutions per minute. What he was doing is not unclear, but as the engine and machinery had very shortly before bean standing half an hour, he had had ample opportunity of attending to them.