Full Details

Surname

THOMPSON

Forename

John

Day

12

Month

12

Year

1902

Age

29

Occupation

Labourer

Mine/Quarry Name

Ravenhead

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

St. Helens Collieries Co. Ltd

Location

St Helens

County

Lancashire

Details of Event

Inquiry made and inquest attended. He was walking down the railway when the locomotive with waggon approached him from behind the driver whistle, and deceased tried to get up a slack heap and in doing so fell against the moving waggons and got fatally injured. The brakesman instead of riding on the leading waggon was on the locomotive.