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Mexborough Scaffold Accident

December 1905

Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Tuesday 19 December 1905

A Mexborough Scaffold Accident

Yesterday Joseph Walters (38), of 33, Bank Street, Mexborougb, was admitted to the Montagu Hospital, Mexborough, suffering from injuries to his back.

He was engaged as a bricklayer on the Mexborough Free Library now in course of erection, and fell off the scaffolding from a height of 20 feet