Full Details

Surname

WADDINGTON

Forename

Joseph

Day

03

Month

06

Year

1907

Age

44

Occupation

Runrider

Mine/Quarry Name

Stanhope, Silkstone

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Old Silkstone Collieries Ltd

Location

Silkstone

County

Yorkshire WR

Details of Event

When riding on the front end of a full train of tubs the first tub, probably owing to a piece of stone falling on to the rails got on the way and displaced a prop and this caused four or five bars to he displaced with the stone resting on them, and he was completely covered and killed.