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Surname
DAVIES
Forename
Samuel
Day
13
Month
12
Year
1902
Age
30
Occupation
Quarryman
Mine/Quarry Name
Gigfran Quarry
Mineral Worked
Owner
Birmingham Corporation
Location
County
Radnorshire
Details of Event
While charging a hole for blasting. Deceased was dropping cartridges of gelignite into the hole when the charge exploded fatally injuring him and slightly injuring the powder man who was standing near with a long wooden rod in his hands ready to push the cartridges home.