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Thomas Barker |
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Edward Medal, Second Class | |||
| Date: | 03 Jul 1911 | ||
| Colliery: | Hawk Cotton Spinning Factory, Shaw, Lancs | ||
| Occupation: | Spinner | ||
Whitehall, November 15, 1911.
His Majesty The King has been pleased to award the Edward Medal of the Second Class to Thomas Barker under the following circumstances :—
On thİ 3rd July last a bobbin carrier named Whitehead, employed afc the Hawk Cotton Spinning Factory, Shaw, Lancashire, slipped while entering the hoist cage on the third floor and, clutching the starting chain, set the hoist in motion. Whitehead fell forward, and, the doors of the hoist having closed automatically, he became tightly wedged between the top of the doorway and the cage floor. Barker, a spinner, seeing what had happened, rushed to Whitehead's assistance, but found he could neither open nor shut the hoist doors. Squeezing through the small opening between the doors, Barker stood on a very narrow ledge where he ran a grave risk of falling down the open hoist-well, a depth at this landing of 60 feet. He managed to get hold of the chains, and by exercise of all his strength to lower the hoist cage until, with the aid of other helpers, Whitehead could be lifted away, though he afterwards succumbed to the serious injuries' he had sustained.
Source: London Gazette (17 Nov 1911)
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