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Surname
BULLOCK
Forename
John
Day
29
Month
09
Year
1914
Age
29
Occupation
Haulage Hand
Mine/Quarry Name
Monk Bretton
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Monk Bretton Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Monk Bretton
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
He was detaching a rope from the front end of a train of tubs travelling at the rate of 7 or 8 miles an hour when nearing the shaft bottom. The first tub lost its back pair of wheels and the tubs got off the way, deceased being thrown into the tubs. When the tubs came to rest some yards further on he was found dead between the second and third. No person ought to be allowed to detach the rope from a train travelling at such a speed.