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Surname
WARD
Forename
John
Day
11
Month
11
Year
1905
Age
34
Occupation
Brakesman
Mine/Quarry Name
Gauntley
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Bispham Hall Colliery Co.
Location
Orrell
County
Lancashire
Details of Event
Inquiry made. He was the brakesman riding on the buffer of a front waggon of coal, the locomotive pushing. He had to get down to open some points the waggons moving slowly when he appears to have slipped and fell into the wheels, and was fatally injured.