Full Details

Surname

BESWICK

Forename

John

Day

22

Month

06

Year

1903

Age

52

Occupation

Collier

Mine/Quarry Name

Ashton Moss

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

New Moss Colliery Co. Ltd

Location

Audenshaw

County

Lancashire

Details of Event

Fall of roof at working face from between a slip and a break both plain to be seen one prop would have prevented and ought to have been seen. Fireman had urged him to put coal aside and set prop. (Average roof.).