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Surname
WILLIS
Forename
Joseph
Day
08
Month
07
Year
1903
Age
19
Occupation
Driver
Mine/Quarry Name
West Pelton
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
James Joicey & Co. Ltd
Location
Pelton
County
Durham
Details of Event
Died April 15th. Deceased, who was occasionally employed as a driver, coming to the shaft with a horse and four full tubs. The road is too narrow to sit on the limbers, and he was sitting on the top of the front tub he had to pass under a steel girder supporting the roof, and only 13 inches in clear of the tub. In accordance with instructions the drivers usually got off and led their horses past this place but deceased either forgot or thought he could clear it he escaped so far as his head was concerned but his back was caught and he was crushed and his spine and bladder injured, and he lingered nine months. The road at the accident has been made higher.