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| Date: | 16th March 1908 |
| Colliery: | Cumble Tor (Granite) |
| Company: | John Steed |
| Cause: | Fall of ground |
| Lives Lost: | 2 |
| Category: | Inside the Quarries :: Falls of Ground :: From the person's own working place |
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 | Screech, Richard, aged 54, Foreman, Fall of ground, about 10 tons, from above where they were working on a ledge, carried them with it to the bottom. It was a bed of elvan rock, about a foot to eighteen inches thick which, being upright, came away at a bed into which water apparently had got and loosened it. Screech had full charge of the work |
| | Wood, Charles, aged 27, Labourer, Fall of ground, about 10 tons, from above where they were working on a ledge, carried them with it to the bottom. It was a bed of elvan rock, about a foot to eighteen inches thick which, being upright, came away at a bed into which water apparently had got and loosened it. Screech had full charge of the work |
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