Full Details
- Surname
- SLEIGH
- Forename
- Charles
- Day
- 08
- Month
- 02
- Year
- 1909
- Age
- 38
- Occupation
- Hewer
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Shotton
- Mineral Worked
- Coal
- Owner
- Horden Collieries Ltd
- Location
- Shotton
- County
- Durham
- Details of Event
- He was killed by a stone, weighing about half a ton, which fell directly on to him as he was hewing. There were slips in three sides of the stone but these would not be visible prior to the stone falling.