Single Record

Full Details

Surname

EVANS

Forename

Thomas

Day

01

Month

11

Year

1907

Age

36

Occupation

Shunter

Mine/Quarry Name

Llwynypia

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd

Location

Llwynypia

County

Glamorganshire

Details of Event

This accident occurred on one of the road under the screening platform. Deceased bad left four empty wagons on the outer of two roads. He then got on his locomotive, which came over a cross-over road and passed the four empties. Finding another loco standing in front of him in the road which he wanted to travel, he jumped off the footplate and walked down to ask the other driver why he did not move on out of his way. As he was talking to this driver, the four wagons which he had left above, moved quietly down the road and crushed him against some empty wagons, which were standing, scotched, on the same road. He had not taken the precaution of putting down a single brake on these four wagons, but relied on their being at rest when he left them. He had been a shunter on these roads for nine years. The gradient is 1 in 110.