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Robert Wilson

Age:   31
Died:   29th May 1895
Accident:   29th May 1895 8:15 PM, 4th hour of shift
Year Born:   abt. 1864
Colliery:   West Cramlington
Company:   Owners of Backworth and West Cramlington Collieries
Occupation:   Stoneman
Notes:  
Wilson had been timbering off a gateway ready for a shot, and apparently while altering some timber just on the outbye side of the "canch" the side stone fell on him and crushed him to death
Buried:   [not known]
Category:  

Sources
  • 1895 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8074), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. L. Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 26, Accident Number: 120 Where to find this report

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