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Surname
BUTTERWOOD
Forename
Charles
Day
06
Month
11
Year
1905
Age
58
Occupation
Night banksman
Mine/Quarry Name
Monk Bretton
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Monk Bretton Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Monk Bretton
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
One of the cages came to the pity head level with a tram in the top deck a tub in the middle and another tram in the bottom deck; he took the tub out of the middle deck and then signalled for the cage to be raised so that the low deck was level with the flat sheets he got into it, contrary to the special rules, and the cage was then lowered to the low landing or 24 feet below in order that the trams might be taken out of the cage there. He had not got sufficiently far into the cage and was caught between the cage and the baulk carrying the fallers and fatally injured. He should have gone down some steps to the lower level.