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Date:	21st June 1856
Colliery:	Buffery
Company:	William Haden
Cause:	Shaft accident
Lives Lost:	1
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It is too much the practice here to be without any fence whatever to the shaft whilst drawing coal, and the deaths in Nos. 4, 61, and 113 are unquestionably attributable to such cause.

Source: 1856 Mines Inspectors Report, by Lionel Brough, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 83

	Jeavons, William, aged 11, Fell down the shaft from the surface, where he was employed by his father
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