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Date:	6th October 1924
Colliery:	Wimblebury (Valley)
Company:	Cannock and Rugeley Colliery Co., Ltd.
Cause:	Fall of roof
Lives Lost:	1
Category:	Falls in Mine :: Falls of Roof

Wimblebury Colliery, South Stafford, 6th October. — One man killed. Deceased started and finished getting the ripping stone down at the way-end of his stall. He had to wedge the rock to get it down. A few minutes later the roof on the right of the ripping fell on him as he was walking under it. There was a fault, easily visible in the roof on this side of the stall, which was so inclined to the regular rank timber that it only had the support of one tree in a length of 10 ft. The fall was from this fault and another slip in the roof also between the rank timber. This was clearly a place where two or three bars should have been set across the fault and had they been set the accident in all probability would have been avoided.

Source: 1924 Mines Inspectors Report, Midland and Southern Division (No. 8) by H. A. Abbott, H.M. Inspector of Mines [DMM Ref: L-01624 - Tom Bainbridge Collection], Page: 19

	Mabbley, George, aged 45, Stallman, Killed by a fall of roof
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