From the Kentish Gazette, 8 September 1857.

DEPTFORD. Fatal Accident.

On Friday evening Mr. C. J. Carttar, coroner for West Kent, held an inquest at the "Three Tuns," Upper Watergate, Deptford, on the body of James Fullwood, a youth 18 years of age, and residing in Gravel-lane, Southwark. The deceased was employed at the steam factory of Messrs. Humphry, Tennent, and Dykes, Deptford-green. On Thursday afternoon he was engaged working on a platform raised at the height of 10 feet, at the sides of which movable cranes passed, he had been heard during the day to complain of feeling unwell and faint, and in a moment his brother workmen were horrified at seeing him fall on to the ground-floor of the workshop, on which several huge pieces of machinery were standing. The father of the deceased was the first to run to his assistance, and on picking him up life was found to be extinct, the left side of the deceased skull having been completely forced in. The coroner having remarked upon the melancholy facts of the case, the jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death.