Full Details

Surname

WILSON

Forename

Christopher

Day

05

Month

06

Year

1901

Age

13

Occupation

Screen Boy

Mine/Quarry Name

Shildon Lodge

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. Ltd

Location

Shildon

County

Durham

Details of Event

He was piling timber up in the timber yard and left his work to ask the man in charge of the branch horses what time it was and remained with his back against a stack of timber to see the horses pull a truck past the truck side caught him and he was pulled in front of wheels which passed over and killed him.