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Surname
WOOLLEY
Forename
George Thomas
Day
14
Month
01
Year
1913
Age
38
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Brown Lees
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Robert Heath & Sons Ltd
Location
Biddulph
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
Deceased was barring down some top coal in which a shot had been fired two hours previously in a drift in the Stoney Eight Feet Coal (inclination 31 degrees). More coal fell than expected, and he overbalanced and fell a few feet down the drift. A lump of the fallen coal rolled against him and crushed him against a post fracturing some ribs. He died two days later from pneumonia caused by penetration of the lung by the broken ribs.