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| Date: | 21st May 1860 |
| Colliery: | Rothwell Haigh |
| Company: | Messrs. Charlesworth |
| Cause: | Fall of roof in the mine |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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Accident No. 17 in the Tabular List.
Fall of roof at Rothwell Haigh Colliery, near Leeds.
It has frequently been my painful duty to notice in my Reports, acts of deplorable recklessness committed by individual miners, even in the presence of manifest and impending danger; and the daring obstinacy of the ill-fated man (Schofield), supplies another marked example of their habitual courage and occasional rashness.
In opposition to the warning and command of his overlooker, and the entreaty and remonstrance of his own comrade, he persisted in searching for ironstone in an unsafe and abandoned place, and in a few minutes his mangled corpse had to be dug out from beneath a mass of shale which had suddenly broken down from the roof.
Source: 1860 Mines Inspectors Report, Yorkshire District, by Charles Morton, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 6
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