Full Details

Surname

WANLESS

Forename

Thomas Edward

Day

20

Month

03

Year

1914

Age

52

Occupation

Waiter-On

Mine/Quarry Name

Harraton

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Lambton & Hetton Collieries Ltd

Location

Harraton

County

Durham

Details of Event

A road to the downcast shaft could only be approached by a gap in the full set in the shaft landing. Deceased was in this gap when that part of the set above the gap got amain, and he was crushed between the tubs.