 At around midday on 15 August 1889 three men, Charles Harding, George Richards and James Wills, were killed while boring a hole for blasting purposes, about from the face of the quarry.Large boulders fell on them and they fell to the bottom of the quarry, some below and were crushed, two of them beyond recognition.Harding was rescued alive, but died about an hour later from a fractured skull and complications shortly before arriving in hospital.