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- Surname
- BROWNLEY
- Forename
- James
- Day
- 26
- Month
- 10
- Year
- 1904
- Age
- 17
- Occupation
- Plane boy
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Orgreave
- Mineral Worked
- Coal
- Owner
- Rothervale Collieries Ltd
- Location
- Handsworth
- County
- Yorkshire WR
- Details of Event
- He gave the usual signal for an empty set of tubs to be taken up a self-acting incline but forgot to attach the rope to the tubs. The man at the end took the set off the full tubs and was unable to control them they rushed to the bottom and collided with and displaced some chocks, which allowed some girders and roof to fall and was caught and killed by the fall.
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