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Surname
WILSON
Forename
Thomas William
Day
27
Month
05
Year
1913
Age
16
Occupation
Helper-Up
Mine/Quarry Name
Black Prince
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Weardale Steel, Coal & Coke Co. Ltd
Location
Tow Law
County
Durham
Details of Event
The seam is thin and tub roads are made only 3 feet 6 inches high. In heavy places the putter is supplied with a helper-up. In this case a road dipped from the face 4.5 inches per yard. The putter needed help to get the empty tub in, but brought out the full tub with a drag in. There was a level place near the siding, and the patter said he left the full tub there with a drag in while he took the empty tub into the hewer. He expected the helper-up had gone out to the flat. On returning, he found his tub a few yards further out, on the heavy, and found deceased's head was fastened between the tub and a prop. A drag could not be found close to the tub, and it seems very likely that deceased was holding the tub back, when it got the better of him.