Full Details

Surname

BANKS

Forename

Joseph

Day

25

Month

04

Year

1908

Age

34

Occupation

Hewer

Mine/Quarry Name

Thrislington

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Thrislington Coal Co. Ltd

Location

West Cornforth

County

Durham

Details of Event

He was hewing in a headways lift in the Harvey Seam, when a piece of stone, weighing about a ton fell away ii from between two converging slips in the blue shale immediately overlying the seam. The place had been well timbered but the stone fell between the supports.