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Surname
WHITEHURST
Forename
Septimus
Day
07
Month
06
Year
1906
Age
39
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Stafford, Kemball Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Stafford Coal & Iron Co. Ltd
Location
Fenton
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
Deceased was pulling down some roof stone in a road alongside a fault at the longwall face in the Bassey Mine. To do this he stood in a tub about three yards from the face. A fall occurred from a slip running along by the packside and sloping to the fault on the other side of the roadway. Two posts near the face were reeled out by the fall, which extended back a distance of 5 yards from the face, to the last bond of timber. Had the existence of the slip been known, more bars would have been set nearer the face.