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Surname
WHITTLING
Forename
Richard
Day
11
Month
12
Year
1914
Age
47
Occupation
Coal Cutting Machineman
Mine/Quarry Name
Lumley, 3rd Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lambton & Hetton Collieries Ltd
Location
Great Lumley
County
Durham
Details of Event
Deceased was at the back-end of a coal-cutting machine in a seam 2 feet 7 inches thick with a strong shale roof, at a point about halfway between the ends of a crossgate and a newly formed gateway. The machine was running when without warning the roof, over a length of 15 feet, 4 feet wide and 2 feet thick, collapsed in one piece burying the machine and killing deceased instantly. There was a well defined slip at one end of the fall and breaks formed the other three sides of it.