Full Details

Surname

CHAMBERLAIN

Forename

Frederick

Day

13

Month

06

Year

1910

Age

60

Occupation

Shotfirer

Mine/Quarry Name

Duck

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Lydney & Crumpmeadow Collieries Co.

Location

Cinderford

County

Gloucestershire

Details of Event

He was firing a shot of Arkite in a top caunch. Instead of getting round a corner into a place of safety, as he could easily have done, he stretched the cable to its full length - an inch or two over 23 yards - straight outbye from the shot, and from that point exploded the charge. A stone, projected by the shot, hit him on the side of the head and killed him. He probably held the common but absurd belief that the high explosives only strike downwards.