Full Details
- Surname
- WYLIE
- Forename
- Walter
- Day
- 21
- Month
- 08
- Year
- 1947
- Age
- 26
- Occupation
- Brusher
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Whitehaven, William Pit
- Mineral Worked
- Coal
- Owner
- National Coal Board
- Location
- Whitehaven
- County
- Cumberland
- Details of Event
- Explosion of firedamp propagated by coal dust caused by shot firing in the waste. 104 killed. Married with two children of 36, Fell View Avenue, Woodhouse.
