Full Details

Surname

SMITH

Forename

Fred

Day

01

Month

05

Year

1907

Age

16

Occupation

Rope Boy

Mine/Quarry Name

Warsop Main

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Staveley Coal & Iron Co.

Location

Shirebrook

County

Nottinghamshire

Details of Event

He was fatally crushed between a full set and an empty set of eight tubs each passing along a roadway worked by endless rope. The youth was working overtime when the accident occurred.