Full Details

Surname

WORGAN

Forename

Colin

Day

31

Month

05

Year

1912

Age

25

Occupation

Collier

Mine/Quarry Name

Eastern United

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

H. Crawshay & Co. Ltd

Location

Ruspidge

County

Gloucestershire

Details of Event

The seam in the place where this accident occurred was abnormal, being 8 feet thick, with one foot of clod on top of it. Props 10 feet long by 8 to 10 inches diameter at the thick end by 6 to 8 inches diameter at the thin end were used and were set within the thick end of the roof. Whilst deceased was filling a tub some 4 yards from the face a piece of coal and clod fell off the face and struck one of these long props knocking it out. Deceased’s head was caught between the falling prop and another one set against the roof and his skull fractured. The prop which was knocked out had been reset the same morning and was said to have been driven up tight with a sledge hammer. It had a good head-tree over it and its lower end had been let into the floor.