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Surname
TURNER
Forename
Joseph
Day
21
Month
09
Year
1914
Age
49
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Kendal Green
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Kendal Green Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Worsbrough
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
He had withdrawn 10 props with a safety appliance from a worked out pot-hole and had loosened a bar leg. He was walking in to pull the leg out when the roof, over an area of 140 sq. feet collapsed, reeming out four bars. He was buried by a fall of about 50 tons.