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Surname
WOODWARD
Forename
John
Day
12
Month
05
Year
1910
Age
36
Occupation
Hewer
Mine/Quarry Name
Low Cold Knott
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Thomas Snowdon & Co.
Location
Crook
County
Durham
Details of Event
He was lying hewing in a seam 20 incites thick when a piece of stone like an inverted saucer, 3.5 feet diameter fell out of the roof on to him. This stone was 12 inches thick at the middle and thinned all round to a feather edge.