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Surname
WATERS
Forename
Thomas
Day
24
Month
07
Year
1913
Age
47
Occupation
Contractor’s Man
Mine/Quarry Name
Edge Green
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Richard Evans & Co. Ltd
Location
Ashton-in-Makerfield
County
Lancashire
Details of Event
Deceased was assisting a contractor in the changing of girders at the junction of a jig brow and a main level. While preparing to change a prop at the end of one of the girders, a fall of roof occurred and displaced four cross girders and a carrying girder. Waters was struck by a falling girder and buried by the fall.