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Surname
WATSON
Forename
John Thomas
Day
04
Month
02
Year
1914
Age
55
Occupation
Hewer
Mine/Quarry Name
Wingate Grange
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Wingate Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Wingate
County
Durham
Details of Event
Deceased and another man were driving a 4 yards wide skirting alongside a fallen headway in a seam 3 feet 6 inches thick. They met a 15 inch dip fault, and unknowingly had passed under a slip running through the 15 inch thick panel of shale overlying the coal. An area of this roof stone next to the old headway fell, 7 feet by 4 feet 6 inches carrying out four props end killing Watson. This stone was divided into three pieces by breaks parallel to the old headways, and it is likely they were there before the coal was removed. Assuming the props were properly set, deceased seems to have exercised reasonable care.