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Surname
WHITEHURST
Forename
R.J.
Day
25
Month
08
Year
1905
Age
45
Occupation
Fireman
Mine/Quarry Name
Foxfield
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Foxfield Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Dilhorne
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
Fall of roof (shale) at a gate end in the main level, apparently due to a carrying bar reeling out and letting three other bars down. No one except deceased, who was on his round, was at the place when the fall occurred.