CRUSHED BY FALL OF COAL
NIGHTCAPS MINE FATALITY By Telegraph.—Press Association. Invercargill, Last Night. A distressing fatality occurred in the Linton coal mine at Nightcaps to-day, when Gavin Cockburn, single, aged 38, an experienced worker in the mine, was erushed <o death by a heavy fall of coal. At the time of the accident Cockburn was working on “tops,” removing the roofing of the mine to allow the loose coal to fall, when the roof collapsed and he was buried under some two hundred tons of coal. Other workers immediately made frenzied attempts to dig away the coal, but two hours elapsed before the body was recovered. The unfortunate miner had been fearfully crushed, many bones being broken. The work on which he was engaged is generally regarded as being dangerous, and would be undertaken only by experienced men.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 June 1928, Page 9
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