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Age:	28
Died:	8th Oct 1889
Accident:	7th Oct 1889
Year Born:	abt. 1861
Colliery:	Waterloo Main
Company:	Brooks and Pickup
Occupation:	Incline man
Notes:	Crushed between rope and pulley. Died 8th Oct
Buried:	[not known]
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At Waterloo Main Colliery, near Leeds, G. Schofield, an incline man, aged 28 years, was so injured as to cause his death on the following day. The accident occurred at the junction of the East and South districts, where a pulley is fixed in order to change the haulage rope from one district to the other. A man, named Barker, was stationed here to hang full corves on to the rope and take empty ones off, but he was under the control of Schofield. The latter, being present when Barker was attaching some full corves, was asked to take the empty ones off. In doing this he was pulled between the rope and the pulley. The rope is worked along the top of the corves, the pulley being 3 feet from the floor, and horizontal. Unfortunately, while Schofield was in this position a corf got off the line and ran against the shaft of the pulley, and, although the engine was at once stopped, the poor fellow was so badly crushed that he died as above stated.

• 1889 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6015), Yorkshire and Lincolnshire District (No. 5) by Frank N. Wardell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 20 Where to find this report
• 1889 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6015), Yorkshire and Lincolnshire District (No. 5) by Frank N. Wardell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 30, Accident Number: 79 Where to find this report

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