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Surname
DAVIES
Forename
Joseph
Day
28
Month
05
Year
1900
Age
33
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Glynhebog
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Pontyberem Collieries Co. Ltd
Location
Pontyberem
County
Carmarthenshire
Details of Event
While waiting outside of their working place where a pillar of coal was being worked out the roof fell and gas which apparently was liberated by the fall was carried by the current upon their naked lights. Pumpquart vein anthracite. Rees died on the 3rd and Davis on 14th June. 2 killed.