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Surname
DUNN
Forename
Robert
Day
03
Month
12
Year
1906
Age
24
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Caerau
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
North’s Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd
Location
Caerau
County
Glamorganshire
Details of Event
While walking out along an engine plane at the end of his shift. He was severely injured in a manhole which he had entered to take refuge from a train of nine trams running wild in consequence of the breaking of a haulage rope. The trams tumbled at the manhole. He died next day.