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Surname
DAVIES
Forename
William
Day
14
Month
05
Year
1907
Age
59
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Griffin, No.3 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
John Lancaster & Co. Ltd
Location
Blaina
County
Monmouthshire
Details of Event
Fall of roof at his working face in the Old Coal Seam from two unseen slants. He had set a post within one foot of the slants which appear to have been concealed by a scale of clod or coal. The distances fixed under Special Rule 2 are 8 feet and 7 feet, and these might well be reduced with a view to prevention of this class of accident, and thus give effect to the intention of the Special Rules.