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Surname
WILKINSON
Forename
Thomas
Day
22
Month
04
Year
1904
Age
46
Occupation
Stoneman
Mine/Quarry Name
Bedlington
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Bedlington Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Bedlington
County
Northumberland
Details of Event
Deceased, who was leading man, was working along with another stoneman near the face of a gateway in longwall workings in the Yard seam. A shot had been fired to lift the bottom stone and a steel plank had been withdrawn and scene top stone taken down with picks. He was in the act of preparing to replace the plank under the new roof when a stone 5 feet 9 inches by 5 feet 2 inches and 19 inches thick at extremes dropped out relieved by jacks on three sides, and fell upon him. The chargeman had spent two hours in the place about an hour before the accident. The Local Inspectors reported ‘in our opinion it was a pure accident these slips cannot be proven until the stone falls.’