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Surname
TOMMEY
Forename
Frederick
Day
30
Month
01
Year
1914
Age
31
Occupation
Loader
Mine/Quarry Name
Himley, No.22
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Earl of Dudley
Location
Gornalwood
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
Deceased was loading a tub of coal by the side of a pillar in a Thick coal opening, when a piece of "Sawyer" coal fell from the pillar side and injured him so severely that he died a few minutes later. The ‘Benches’ and ‘Slipper’ coal had just previously been worked off, and the "Sawyer' above sounded strong but the piece which fell came off from between two converging slips which it was alleged were not visible before the fall ho piece two feet thick, and triangular in shape, the two short sides of which were two feet and three feet respectively.