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Surname
CAMPION
Forename
John H.
Day
26
Month
07
Year
1906
Age
19
Occupation
Labourer
Mine/Quarry Name
Stormsdown & Owlacombe
Mineral Worked
Tin & Arsenic
Owner
E.H. Bayldon
Location
Ashburton
County
Devonshire
Details of Event
Apparently this accident occurred owing to a steel drill coming in contact with an unexploded portion of a gelignite charge. The drill was being need for molling out or getting up the ground shattered by six holes which had been blasted in the bottom of a sinking shaft. The non-explosion of the gelignite may be due either to an excessive charge for the work it had to do or from an unsuitable (too weak) cap having been used.