Full Details

Surname

SMETHURST

Forename

William

Day

30

Month

09

Year

1901

Age

26

Occupation

Daywageman

Mine/Quarry Name

Blackbrook

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Blackbrook Colliery Co.

Location

St Helens

County

Lancashire

Details of Event

Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged clearing away the holing dirt displaced by an electrical heading machine when his foot slipped on a wet stone floor and his leg was caught by the revolving cutters and he was drawn in and fatally injured. He expired at the Haydock Hospital the same night.