Full Details

Surname

COWBURN

Forename

Edward

Day

02

Month

02

Year

1912

Age

48

Occupation

Labourer

Mine/Quarry Name

Abram, No.2

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Abram Coal Co. Ltd

Location

Bickershaw

County

Lancashire

Details of Event

Cowburn was employed emptying slack wagons on a siding, when a trapdoor fell from a height of 26 feet and fatally injured him. The door was 24 inches by 18 inches by 3 inches, and was part of the staging at the pit brow. It had been frozen and, when being wrenched up with a crowbar, the door fell through the opening Cowburn was thought to be working elsewhere at the time. The door has since been provided with hinges Deceased died on the 10th February.