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Date:	7th October 1924
Colliery:	Hanwood
Company:	Hanwood and Moat Hall Collieries (Salop) Ltd.
Cause:	Fall of roof
Lives Lost:	1
Category:	Falls in Mine :: Falls of Roof

Hanwood Colliery, Salop, 7th October. — One man killed and one injured. Deceased was the certificated manager of the colliery and had only recently been appointed. He was observing the progress of repair work in connection with a fall of roof on a haulage plane. While he was in a sitting position on the top of the fallen ground the new roof, partly supported by a strut, fell and seriously injured him. He died five weeks later.

If two or three sleepers had been laid fairly solid on the top of the fall and two or three temporary props had been set from the sleepers to the roof at the top of the cavity before the permanent timber was put in to secure the cavity, the accident would probably have been prevented.

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: 20

	Evans, P., aged 53, Manager, Killed by a fall of roof
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