Full Details

Surname

DEANS

Forename

William

Day

30

Month

03

Year

1953

Age

48

Occupation

Bank Hand

Mine/Quarry Name

Brandon

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

National Coal Board

Location

Brandon & Byshottles

County

Durham

Details of Event

Killed while unloading a girder from underneath a cage; the girder had worked loose on its way up and as he reached to pull it in he, and the girder, fell to the bottom of the 396 ft shaft.