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Date:	16th November 1856
Colliery:	Jervois
Company:	John Tyldesley
Cause:	Shaft accident
Lives Lost:	1
Category:

Again, in No. 111, a boy acts with such carelessness as to occasion the death of another by the projection of a small piece of coal down the shaft. Equal order should be maintained at the pit top as in the mine below.

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

	Martin, Joseph, aged 17, A boy on the surface threw the "tacklers" on to the pit top, and a small piece of coal rebounded and fell down shaft, at the bottom of which the deceased was employed
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