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Surname
WILKINSON
Forename
Stephen
Day
02
Month
12
Year
1910
Age
18
Occupation
Incline Lad
Mine/Quarry Name
Brusselton
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. Ltd
Location
St Helen Aukland
County
Durham
Details of Event
Due to a putter neglecting to place a loose chock across the top of a short dilly bank dipping 10 inches per yard, a full tub which he had left on a flat 4 yards from the chock got amain and collided with a full tub at the dilly bottom 13 yards away, causing the latter to run amain down the next dilly. This tub on reaching the bottom crashed into a full tub attached to the rope and then rebounded across into the level and crushed the deceased against a prop. There was apparently considerable laxity in the use of the chocks, which should have been put across the road as soon as every empty tub reached the bank head, and if this had been done the accident would not have occurred.