Colliery Accident – Edward Roddy

January 1878

Sheffield Telegraph, January 26, 1878.

Colliery Accident.

Yesterday evening a miner named Edward Roddy, employed at the Denaby Main Colliery, living at the new buildings, Denaby Main, was admitted into the Doncaster infirmary suffering from a fracture of his thigh bone.

Whilst working in the pit during the afternoon some coal fell from the face of the bank and threw him down .

He is progressing as satisfactory as can be expected

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