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Surname

TRELOAR

Forename

Edwin James

Day

23

Month

04

Year

1912

Age

24

Occupation

Miner

Mine/Quarry Name

Wheal Grenville

Mineral Worked

Tin

Owner

Wheal Grenville United Mines Ltd

Location

Troon

County

Cornwall

Details of Event

The lode at this mine sticks in masses to the hanging wall, and these masses being low in value, are not worked. In the present instance such a mass existed and two stout props had been set to support it. Unfortunately, at the inbye end of the mass there was a "slip" or "soapy head" running through it at right angles to the hanging wall. Deceased after blasting eight holes at the face of a stope immediately to the deep of the 320 fathoms level, returned along the level to see the result, when the piece of lode stuff on the inbye side of the above mentioned slip or soapy head immediately over the level and some 6 feet above the tram-rails, fell from the hanging wall, and, striking him in the abdomen, caused injuries from which he died an hour afterwards. The amount of lode stuff which fell was small, and but for the "slip" or soapy head, causing it to be detached from the mass supported by the two props, it probably would not have fallen. The slip or soapy head could only have been detected prior to the fall by a very minute examination. It is probable that the blasting in the stope, which had been close to and was, at the time of the accident some 5 to 6 yards away, had caused the loosening of the stone from the hanging wall.