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Surname
CAMPBELL
Forename
Reginald
Day
08
Month
04
Year
1903
Age
44
Occupation
Pumpman
Mine/Quarry Name
Linton
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Ashington Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Ellington & Linton
County
Northumberland
Details of Event
Deceased, who had lost the sight of his right eye, was pumping engine man and attended to a telephone in his engine house. He bad received a message which in taking to a locomotive driver caused him to cross three lines of rails leading from the screens on one of which a 32-ton truck loaded with small coal was gravitating forward without an attendant and he was run over by it and both his legs nearly severed.