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Date:	7th August 1856
Colliery:	Cradley Heath
Company:	King, Swindel, and Evers
Cause:	Drawn over the pulley
Lives Lost:	1
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Only one man has been killed in the past year by being drawn over the pulley, — the case recorded is No. 74. It was proved in evidence that the illness of the usual engineman rendered the employment of another necessary. The person selected did not understand the action of the machinery, and acknowledged his ignorance of that particular class of engine — a horizontal one. Nevertheless he was immediately set to work, and the result was, that two men were drawn over the pulley, one of whom did not long survive.

Source: 1856 Mines Inspectors Report, by Lionel Brough, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 84

	Williams, John, aged 52, Horse Keeper, Drawn over the pulley
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