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The Whitehaven News -
25 Sept 1879
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ACCIDENT AT WILLIAM PIT
On Tuesday an accidnet occured at William Pit yard, to a young
man named JOHN WILSON, who lives at Low Mount Pleasant. He was
engaged working about the wagons that convey the coal to the
dock. There are different sizes of waggons, thoses of the
colliery being smaller than those of the Railway Company. WILSON
was taking a "burr" from the wheel of a waggon- that piece of wood used
for "scotching" (or staying the further process of) the waggons.
Some waggons were being shunted up behind him, but though aware of
this, he forgot about the difference in the size of the waggons, and
placed his hand on the end of the waggon while stopping to get out the
burr; and in the meantime the waggons behind him came up and crushed
his hand. He was taken to the Colliery Infirmary, and his hand
(the left) was amputated by DR LUMB, assisted by DR CLARKE.
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The Whitehaven News 
