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Surname
BURDEN
Forename
George
Day
08
Month
02
Year
1909
Age
27
Occupation
Clay Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Norden Mine
Mineral Worked
Ball Clay
Owner
B. Fayle & Co.
Location
Norden
County
Dorsetshire
Details of Event
These men were engaged at a depth of about 44 feet from the surface taking out the lining boards or sheetings of an old abandoned shaft 4.5 feet square. The ground behind the boards was a very fine and dry sand. They appear to have stripped about 3.5 to 4 feet of the shaft, when apparently a rush of and occurred which knocked out some of the boards higher up and covered them and smothered them immediately. They called to be pulled up just as the rush commenced, but the evidence at the inquest was that they only called once when it was too late. They do not appear to have had previous experience in this immediate work and a mistake was made in that at least one man experienced at it did not go down, as one or more of the gang of five men had bad experience, but they decided among themselves who should go down and the authorities anticipated no danger. 2 killed.