Full Details

Surname

TALBOT

Forename

Daniel

Day

20

Month

05

Year

1908

Age

56

Occupation

Dataller

Mine/Quarry Name

Bickershaw

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Ackers, Whitley & Co. Ltd

Location

Bickershaw

County

Lancashire

Details of Event

When engaged in a haulage brow removing a fall, which had damaged three tubs. One of the tubs had been sent up the haulage road, and the other two had been spragged up. The haulage rope running over the tubs caused the sprag to give way, and deceased got crushed by the tubs running back.