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Surname
BURTON
Forename
James
Day
11
Month
04
Year
1911
Age
38
Occupation
Stallman
Mine/Quarry Name
Langwith
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Sheepbridge Coal & Iron Co. Ltd
Location
Mansfield
County
Derbyshire
Details of Event
He was re-arranging the timber in a stall so that the rails could be laid close up to the coal face, when a fall of roof fatally injured him. He died on the 18th April. One prop was out, but it was not ascertained whether the deceased took it out or the fall displaced it.