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- Surname
- DAVID
- Forename
- John
- Day
- 05
- Month
- 10
- Year
- 1905
- Age
- 57
- Occupation
- Engine fitter
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Garth Merthyr (a)
- Mineral Worked
- Coal
- Owner
- Elder's Navigation Collieries Ltd
- Location
- Maesteg
- County
- Glamorganshire
- Details of Event
- He was so severely scalded by falling into an accumulation of hot water under the floor of an engine house owing to the choking of a drain pipe that he died soon afterwards. He knew of the choked pipe but apparently was not aware of the accumulated hot water.
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