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Surname
TINDALE
Forename
Thomas
Day
28
Month
07
Year
1908
Age
20
Occupation
Kirving Cleaner
Mine/Quarry Name
Burnmoor
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lambton Collieries Ltd
Location
Fence Houses
County
Durham
Details of Event
He was scraping the kirvings out of the kirving made by a coal cutting machine when a stone 5 feet long by 4.5 feet wide by 17 inches thick at one side and tapering to a feather edge at the other fell from between the two planks and injured his spine He died on 2nd August. The face was timbered with planks 5 feet apart this distance for the future will be reduced to four feet.