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Surname
WHITELEY
Forename
Edward
Day
17
Month
07
Year
1914
Age
43
Occupation
Dataller
Mine/Quarry Name
Mosley Common, No.2
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Earl of Ellesmere
Location
Ellenbrook
County
Lancashire
Details of Event
Deceased, with others, was engaged in taking out low bars and replacing them with others. They had nearly finished for the shift and deceased was probably removing a jack leg, when a large fall occurred. A steel girder recently put in as a crossing or carrying bar gave way; five other bars which rested upon it, and five others near the crossing bar all collapsed. The fall measured 16 feet by 17 feet and extended to a height of 16 feet. Deceased was completely buried, and it, took four hours to recover his body.