Full Details

Surname

WALKER

Forename

W.

Day

10

Month

07

Year

1910

Age

14

Occupation

Coal Cleaner

Mine/Quarry Name

Williamthorpe

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Hardwick Colliery Co. Ltd

Location

Temple Normanton

County

Derbyshire

Details of Event

He and other boys were amusing themselves by riding in an empty tub on a ‘creeper', incline. The deceased accidentally put his foot through a hole, and his leg became entangled in the return wheel of the creeper and the creeper horns. He was badly injured, and blood poisoning supervening, he died.