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Richard Entwistle
| Age: | 38 |
| Died: | 29th Jun 1907 |
| Accident: | 29th Jun 1907 12.5 Noon |
| Year Born: | abt. 1869 |
| Colliery: | Musbury Heights Quarry |
| Company: | Grane Quarry Co. |
| Occupation: | Quarrier |
| Notes: | Run over by waggon on tramway, riding with one foot on lever of break and one foot on draw bar. Whilst endeavouring to further press down the break lever he fell from the waggon and was killed by the second waggon. Deceased and another man were taking the two waggons along the inclined tramway, had just passed a gradient of 1 in 12, arrived where it was 1 in 24. Deceased was at the rear end of first waggon, the other man at the rear end of the second waggon, the brake to the former was a lever one, to the second a screw brake. A locomotive will take the waggons down in the future |
| Buried: | [not known] |
| Category: | Outside the Quarries :: On Railways, Sidings, or Tramways |
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- 1907 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4045), Manchester and Ireland District (No. 6) by John Gerrard, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 41, Accident Number: 3 Where to find this report
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