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Surname
WALKER
Forename
W.
Day
10
Month
07
Year
1910
Age
14
Occupation
Coal Cleaner
Mine/Quarry Name
Williamthorpe
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Hardwick Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Temple Normanton
County
Derbyshire
Details of Event
He and other boys were amusing themselves by riding in an empty tub on a ‘creeper', incline. The deceased accidentally put his foot through a hole, and his leg became entangled in the return wheel of the creeper and the creeper horns. He was badly injured, and blood poisoning supervening, he died.