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Surname
WATSON
Forename
Phillip Galbreath
Day
27
Month
07
Year
1911
Age
14
Occupation
Screen Lad
Mine/Quarry Name
Byers Green
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. Ltd
Location
Byers Green
County
Durham
Details of Event
This boy, with others, acting under orders from the keeker, was assisting to push a truck, when the colliery locomotive joined up against other trucks and bumped them forward, crushing the boy between the buffer of the waggon he was assisting to move and that of another truck. This boy's death would not have occurred had the Coal Mines Act been carried out. Further, to move a waggon in this way was a distinct breach of the Special Rules for sidings. A prosecution instituted against the keeker failed.