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Surname
WILLIAMS
Forename
William
Day
24
Month
10
Year
1913
Age
22
Occupation
Stallman
Mine/Quarry Name
Brownhills, No.3
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
William Harrison Ltd
Location
Brownhills
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
Deceased had just bannocked a length of face it the Shallow seam, and was throwing the bannocking dirt into the cog, when the coal over which they had bannocked came off suddenly and struck him, fracturing his ribs, some of which penetrated his lungs. He died two days afterwards. The rate was 18 inches thick at the top and tapering out at a point 3 feet down the face; it was 7 feet long and came off at a smutty slip. A sprag set up to the face was reeled out, the rate being top-heavy. The rate had apparently been liberated by the bannocking.