Full Details

Surname

CLOUGH

Forename

Charles Henry

Day

23

Month

12

Year

1904

Age

26

Occupation

Collier

Mine/Quarry Name

Bank, No.3 (Pretoria) Pit

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Hulton Colliery Co. Ltd

Location

Westhoughton

County

Lancashire

Details of Event

In working place at face. Whilst stooping down making hole in floor for foot of prop a pot-hole dropped from the roof on to his back. Pot-hole seen at 12.50 p.m., at 2.30 p.m. there was a space of eight feet without support and 5 feet six inches from props to coal face the timbering rule being four feet six inches. Fireman passed through place 10 minutes before the accident. Died 27th December. (Average roof).