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Surname
WIGLEY
Forename
Charles
Day
05
Month
06
Year
1912
Age
14
Occupation
Rope Boy
Mine/Quarry Name
Manners
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Manners Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Ilkeston
County
Derbyshire
Details of Event
His occupation was to take off the single empty tubs from an endless rope, and the duty of another boy was to put a drag behind each full tub going up the road. This boy failed to put a drag behind the last tub, which ran past him and fatally injured deceased.