Full Details
- Surname
- WARDLE
- Forename
- Wilfred
- Day
- 22
- Month
- 04
- Year
- 1959
- Age
- 38
- Occupation
- Machine man
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Walton
- Mineral Worked
- Coal
- Owner
- National Coal Board
- Location
- Walton
- County
- Yorkshire WR
- Details of Event
- Explosion of firedamp propogated by coal dust ignited from an electric arc from a damaged trailing cable of a coal cutting machine. 5 killed.
