§ MR. JOHN WARD (Stoke-on-Trent)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to an accident at the new waterworks at Greenfield, Lancashire, on Friday last, by which one man was fatally and another seriously injured by a workman striking his pick against an unexploded blasting charge; and whether it is proposed to hold an inquiry relating to the cause and circumstances of the same in accordance with The Notice of Accidents Act, 1904.
(Answered by Mr. Churchill.) I have called for a report from the contractors, and will inform the hon. Member in due cousre whether an inquiry will be held either by the Board of Trade or by the Home Office.