Full Details

Surname

SKELTON

Forename

Robert A.

Day

31

Month

01

Year

1901

Age

48

Occupation

Screener

Mine/Quarry Name

Bearpark, Brancepeth

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Bearpark Coal & Coke Co. Ltd

Location

Bearpark

County

Durham

Details of Event

Filling a truck with small coal at the apparatus and some trucks that were being lowered from the screens caught the one on which he was and moved it forward crushing him between the truck top and apparatus.