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Surname
TOOMEY
Forename
Ernest
Day
28
Month
04
Year
1913
Age
22
Occupation
Trammer
Mine/Quarry Name
Flour Mill
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Princess Royal Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Whitecroft
County
Gloucestershire
Details of Event
He was standing at the bottom of an incline rising 8.5 inches per yard, up which a train of 14 laden tubs was being hauled. The train had only been hauled some 65 or 70 yards when the front axle of the fifth tub broke and caused this tub to be derailed; the tub bumped into a sleeper and the resulting strain caused the hook at the fore end of the draw bar of the third tub to break. Twelve tubs were thus separated from the haling rope, and although a backstay was attached to the last tub of the set, they ran down the incline and killed him. He ought not to have been standing where he was, but should have been with his marrow at work along the level. He saw the set leave the siding and therefore knew the circumstances surrounding the position in which he was standing.