Full Details

Surname

WOOD

Forename

Alfred

Day

23

Month

06

Year

1900

Age

18

Occupation

Roadsman

Mine/Quarry Name

Backworth, Maude Pit

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Owners of Backworth Collieries

Location

Backworth

County

Northumberland

Details of Event

Inspection made and inquest attend. He was talking to someone and evidently forgetting himself either leaned against or took hold of the moving rope and was dragged on a wheel with the result that he was decapitated.