Full Details

Surname

BURKINSHAW

Forename

Samuel

Day

22

Month

01

Year

1912

Age

23

Occupation

Gang Runner

Mine/Quarry Name

Thrybergh Hall

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

J. & J. Charlesworth Ltd

Location

Kilnhurst

County

Yorkshire WR

Details of Event

He was bringing a set of 10 tubs out of a branch road from which they were drawn by a tail rope at speed of 2 miles an hour, and vas riding on the "divvy," when by some means he lost his footing and was severely crushed between the tubs and the side of the road.