Full Details

Surname

WILKINSON

Forename

Thomas

Day

22

Month

03

Year

1904

Age

15

Occupation

Labourer

Mine/Quarry Name

Melton Ross Quarry

Mineral Worked

Limestone

Owner

W. Singleton, Birch & Sons

Location

Barnetby le Wold

County

Lincolnshire

Details of Event

When a hopper of coal was being raised by a hand crane on a chain on the top the chain broke and the hopper caught a wheelbarrow which was standing between the hand crane and he was in consequence thrown off the top of the kiln and fell 12 feet and died on 27th.