Person
Mining

Elias Dorvin

Role: Labourer

Year of birth: 1889

Date of death: 19 Apr 1913

Cause of death: Fall

Age at death: 24

Elias Dorvin was a mine labourer. On April 19th, 1913 he and 4 others were timbering a air shaft when the staging they were standing on gave way, causing them to fall 44 feet down the shaft. Elias died of a broken neck.