Full Details

Surname

VARLEY

Forename

Frederick

Day

12

Month

10

Year

1907

Age

38

Occupation

Labourer

Mine/Quarry Name

Ingham's Thornhill

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Ingham’s Thornhill Collieries Ltd

Location

Thornhill

County

Yorkshire WR

Details of Event

He was standing on a sloping bench of a battery of coke ovens quenching coke with water from a hose pipe when he inadvertently in stepping back fell over the edge on to the railway below and was fatally injured. Died in Dewsbury Infirmary the same day.