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Surname
BROOKS
Forename
John
Day
09
Month
01
Year
1900
Age
34
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Whitfield, Institute Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Chatterley-Whitfield Collieries Ltd
Location
Norton in the Moors
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
Fall of roof. He was starting to drive a flitching for a new jig from an old level in Cockshead Seam. The stone fell from the brow which should have been spragged up. A slip one end of which might have been seen liberated the stone when the coal under it was removed.