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Surname
WOOD
Forename
William
Day
03
Month
08
Year
1906
Age
41
Occupation
Deputy
Mine/Quarry Name
Skelton Park
Mineral Worked
Ironstone
Owner
Bell Brothers Ltd
Location
Skelton
County
Yorkshire NR
Details of Event
He, with others, had drawn the timber from two juds, right and left of a crossing. They then purposed to draw the crossing timber. He was chopping out one of three props set beneath the inbye bearing baulk, when it suddenly broke and let down some dogger. The other two props gave way, and the crossing collapsed and he was killed.