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Surname
THORPE
Forename
Robert Edward
Day
28
Month
06
Year
1912
Age
18
Occupation
Haulage Hand
Mine/Quarry Name
Combs
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Ingham's Thornhill Collieries Ltd
Location
Thornhill
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
Deceased was assisting to repair the signalling wires which had been broken by the fall of a bar on the haulage road. Whilst doing so an adjoining bar broke and fell with a third bar and covering wood. A large fall of roof followed, which buried deceased and killed him.