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Surname
WILSON
Forename
Christopher
Day
05
Month
06
Year
1901
Age
13
Occupation
Screen Boy
Mine/Quarry Name
Shildon Lodge
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. Ltd
Location
Shildon
County
Durham
Details of Event
He was piling timber up in the timber yard and left his work to ask the man in charge of the branch horses what time it was and remained with his back against a stack of timber to see the horses pull a truck past the truck side caught him and he was pulled in front of wheels which passed over and killed him.