Full Details

Surname

WOODWARD

Forename

John

Day

12

Month

05

Year

1910

Age

36

Occupation

Hewer

Mine/Quarry Name

Low Cold Knott

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Thomas Snowdon & Co.

Location

Crook

County

Durham

Details of Event

He was lying hewing in a seam 20 incites thick when a piece of stone like an inverted saucer, 3.5 feet diameter fell out of the roof on to him. This stone was 12 inches thick at the middle and thinned all round to a feather edge.