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| Date: | 8th April 1908 |
| Colliery: | Atherton, No. 1 |
| Company: | Hulton Colliery Co., Ltd. |
| Cause: | Fall of roof |
| Lives Lost: | 2 |
| Category: | Falls of Ground :: Falls of Roof |
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 | Hough, Thomas, aged 40, Dataller, Fall of roof. On an abandoned haulage road whilst drawing an iron girder, the woodbar to which chain of gablock attached gave way, two girders and another bar collapsed, the men were buried under a huge fall. Middle props ought to have been set, the roof was broken. (Average roof) (Trencherbone seam) |
| | Hunt, William, aged 27, Dataller, Fall of roof. On an abandoned haulage road whilst drawing an iron girder, the woodbar to which chain of gablock attached gave way, two girders and another bar collapsed, the men were buried under a huge fall. Middle props ought to have been set, the roof was broken. (Average roof) (Trencherbone seam) |
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