FATALITY IN MINE.
SUDDEN FALL OF COAL. [BV TELEGRAM. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WESTPORT, Friday. An inquest was hold to-day at Denniston, before Mr. E. R. Fox, coroner, touching the death of Robert Crawford, a shiftman in thu employ of the Westport Coal Company, in the Coalbrookdale mine. The evidence went to show that deceased on Thursday morning was laying a flat sheet into its place when a block of coal weighing about scwt., caine away from the root, striking deceased on the head and body, and burying him op to his w list. Death was apparently almost instantaneous Deceased wa3 married and had a family of sis, whose ages ranged from 23 to 3 years-
A verdict of accidental death, no blame bemr attachable to anyone, was returned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19986, 30 June 1928, Page 12
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