Full Details

Surname

WOOLLEY

Forename

George Thomas

Day

14

Month

01

Year

1913

Age

38

Occupation

Collier

Mine/Quarry Name

Brown Lees

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Robert Heath & Sons Ltd

Location

Biddulph

County

Staffordshire

Details of Event

Deceased was barring down some top coal in which a shot had been fired two hours previously in a drift in the Stoney Eight Feet Coal (inclination 31 degrees). More coal fell than expected, and he overbalanced and fell a few feet down the drift. A lump of the fallen coal rolled against him and crushed him against a post fracturing some ribs. He died two days later from pneumonia caused by penetration of the lung by the broken ribs.