Full Details

Surname

AINTLEY

Forename

Gilbert Miller

Day

14

Month

07

Year

1913

Age

32

Occupation

Hewer

Mine/Quarry Name

Whitburn

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Harton Coal Co. Ltd

Location

Whitburn

County

Durham

Details of Event

Whilst hewing in a wall 6 yards wide in a bord and wall whole district of a seam 5 feet thick with a blue roof of poor quality, a large stone, 10 feet long, 5 feet wide, and 1 foot 6 inches thick in the centre, tapering to a feather-edge practically all round, fell from the roof close up to the coal face and left-hand coal side, breaking the ends of two planks partly set under it, and killed him instantly. Considering the nature of the roof, more timber should have been set on both sides of the barrow-way timber.