REPORT OF ACCIDENT - To Robert Baker,
Esq., Inspector of Factories. |
| Name, Age, and Occupation of Person injured |
Martha Appleton At 13
a Scavenger |
| Name of Firm, situation of the Factory in which the Accident
occurred, and nature of the work carried on |
Messrs. William Woods & Son
Coll sp & w
Wallgate
Wigan |
| Date of Accident |
Monday Augst. 8th 1859 |
| Nature of Accident |
Loss of all the fingers of the left hand |
| Statement made to me by the injured
person as to the cause of Accident, the hour of the day when
it happened, and how that person was employed at the time |
About 6.45 a.m. on Monday last I was at the back of the wheel house
putting some bobbins in, when a giddiness came over me, and my hand
slipped between the driving and the man douser wheels of the self
acting Mules. |
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