Full Details

Surname

TAIT

Forename

William

Day

03

Month

10

Year

1912

Age

17

Occupation

Putter

Mine/Quarry Name

Newbottle, Dorothea Pit

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Lambton & Hetton Collieries Ltd

Location

Philadelphia

County

Durham

Details of Event

He was sitting on the limbers driving his pony with one full tub round a turn, when for some unknown reason the tub became derailed, and he was found with his head crushed between the tub and a prop.