Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Saturday 26 May 1928

Pit Roof Fall.

Two Men Buried at Wath Main: One Dead.

On Thursday night two men were buried by a fall of roof in the Barnsley bed seam of Wath Main Colliery.

Despite recurring falls of roof they were extricated, but one of them, Harry Palmer (24), single, a trammer, of 6, Littlemoor, Wath-on-Dearne, succumbed to his injuries shortly afterwards.

Palmer was working with Thomas William Redgate, miner, of Wath, Reginald Stephens, miner, of Mexborough, and Harry Wooding, trammel, of Wath.

The two latter escaped injury, but both Redgate and Palmer were caught and imprisoned by the fall. When released Palmer was found to have sustained a fracture of the left arm, thigh, and legs