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Surname
WICKS
Forename
Arthur James
Day
20
Month
05
Year
1913
Age
28
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Lightmoor
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
H. Crawshay & Co. Ltd
Location
Cinderford
County
Gloucestershire
Details of Event
He was filling the loose stone from a shot in a bottom caunch into a tub when a stone, weighing some 3 to 4 cwt fell out of the side next the roof from between a slippery joint and a fault-leader on to his neck and shoulders and killed him instantly. A shot had been fired in the bottom caunch a few minutes previously, and probably this caused the stone to fall.