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Surname
BUSHELL
Forename
William
Day
16
Month
06
Year
1914
Age
59
Occupation
Manager
Mine/Quarry Name
Tunnel Quarry
Mineral Worked
Chalk
Owner
Topham, Jones & Railton Ltd
Location
County
Essex
Details of Event
Deceased was walking up a self-acting incline down which wagons loaded with gravel were run on their way to the quarry railway. The incline was laid with a double line of rails, and the average speed of the trucks upon it was said to be about six miles per hour. He passed and spoke to an attendant at the foot of the incline, and then proceeded to walk up in the six feet way. Shortly after he had started, the attendant at the bottom signalled to the brakesman at the top to send down a loaded truck. Deceased appears to have seen it coming, and to have been stepping aside to allow it to pass, when he was struck on the shoulder by the ascending empty truck and fell in front of the descending loaded truck, which passed over him and killed him instantly. The clear space between the wagons as the passed was 3 feet 6 inches, It was daylight at the time of the accident and deceased was said to be an active man, in good health, and was not subject to fainting fits.