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Surname
DAVIES
Forename
Edward
Day
14
Month
01
Year
1908
Age
35
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Cambrian, No.2
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Cambrian Collieries Ltd
Location
Clydach Vale
County
Glamorganshire
Details of Event
Deceased worked in a heading cutting faces in the Nine feet seam, in which clod and top coal are ripped to make height. It was said that the rippings projected about 2 feet from the face of the coal and were supported by two posts. Outside the rippings, and close to them, was a pair of timber. As deceased was at work at the face, a piece of coal and shale, and said to have weighed about 2 cwts, fell from between two slips, discharged one of the two posts at the road end, and inflicted injuries, considered slight at the time, but which resulted in his death on January 23rd.