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Surname
VARLEY
Forename
Frederick
Day
12
Month
10
Year
1907
Age
38
Occupation
Labourer
Mine/Quarry Name
Ingham's Thornhill
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Ingham’s Thornhill Collieries Ltd
Location
Thornhill
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
He was standing on a sloping bench of a battery of coke ovens quenching coke with water from a hose pipe when he inadvertently in stepping back fell over the edge on to the railway below and was fatally injured. Died in Dewsbury Infirmary the same day.